The police of North Ossetia reported a shooting in the Prigorodny district

A man suspected of armed assault on a car driver in the Prigorodny district has been detained in North Ossetia. The victim has been hospitalized with serious injuries.

The incident occurred on November 3, but the police of North Ossetia reported the event only on November 11, announcing the detention of the suspect.

According to the agency, the attack on the Lexus GX driver was carried out on the outskirts of the village of Sunzha in the Prigorodny district at night (around 00:20 MSK). "An unknown person, being in the field, fired at least four shots from a firearm," reported the official Telegram channel of the republican Ministry of Internal Affairs.

The driver of the vehicle, a 31-year-old local resident, sustained a penetrating gunshot wound with damage to internal organs – the bullets hit the man in the left side of the chest. "With multiple serious injuries, including traumatic shock, the victim was urgently hospitalized in the intensive care unit of the Central District Hospital of the Prigorodny district," the agency noted.

The alleged shooter is a 36-year-old resident of the village of Kambileevskoye, who has previously been prosecuted. The Ministry of Internal Affairs did not specify the articles under which he was previously convicted, but he is now charged with intentional infliction of serious bodily harm using a weapon (part 2 of article 111 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation provides for up to ten years of imprisonment).

The motives of the shooter were not clarified by the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

"The Caucasian Knot" reported that conflicts periodically occur between residents of North Ossetia and Ingushetia in the Prigorodny district. For instance, at the end of August 2025, a fight occurred at the Chermensky post, which separates Ingushetia and North Ossetia, involving several dozen people from both sides. A month before this incident, a blogger from Ingushetia, Ruslan Dolgiyev, reported that he was detained for more than a day after a checkpoint officer in North Ossetia used force.

In the autumn of 1992, an Ossetian-Ingush conflict occurred in the Prigorodny district, leading to armed clashes. According to the prosecutor's office, as a result, 583 people died, 939 were injured, and another 261 went missing. Various estimates suggest that between 30,000 and 60,000 Ingush were forced to leave their historical territory in the Prigorodny district and Vladikavkaz, mostly settling in Ingushetia, as stated in the "Caucasian Knot" report "Ossetian-Ingush conflict of 1992".