{"id":14037,"date":"2024-06-25T16:47:07","date_gmt":"2024-06-25T16:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=14037"},"modified":"2024-06-25T16:47:21","modified_gmt":"2024-06-25T16:47:21","slug":"russia-has-seen-two-major-terror-attacks-in-just-three-months-heres-what-we-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=14037","title":{"rendered":"Russia has seen two major terror attacks in just three months. Here\u2019s what we know"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;Gunmen opened fire at multiple places of worship and a police traffic stop in two cities in Muslim majority Dagestan, killing at least 15 police officers and four civilians including a priest on Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two synagogues&nbsp;\u2013 one in the city of Derbent and one in the city of Makhachkala \u2013 were attacked, according to a statement from the Russian Jewish Congress (RJC).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Attackers \u201cset the building on fire using Molotov cocktails\u201d at the synagogue in Derbent while police and security guards were killed outside during the attack, the RJC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the provincial capital Makhachkala, Russian state-news agency TASS reported that a church security guard was killed in a shootout at Svyato-Uspenskiy Sobor, and 19 people had locked themselves inside the premises amid an attack.&nbsp; An attack was also reported at a police traffic post in Makhachkala.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attacks, but law enforcement agencies told TASS that the attackers were \u201cadherents of an international terrorist organization.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee of Russia for the Republic of Dagestan said it had launched a terror investigation into the attacks under the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/russia-seen-two-major-terror-090953207.html\">https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/russia-seen-two-major-terror-090953207.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Gunmen opened fire at multiple places of worship and a police traffic stop in two cities in Muslim majority Dagestan, killing at least 15 police officers and four civilians including a priest on Sunday.<br \/>\nTwo synagogues \u2013 one in the city of Derbent and one in the city of Makhachkala \u2013 were attacked, according to a statement from the Russian Jewish Congress (RJC).<\/p>\n<p>Attackers \u201cset the building on fire using Molotov cocktails\u201d at the synagogue in Derbent while police and security guards were killed outside during the attack, the RJC.<\/p>\n<p>In the provincial capital Makhachkala, Russian state-news agency TASS reported that a church security guard was killed in a shootout at Svyato-Uspenskiy Sobor, and 19 people had locked themselves inside the premises amid an attack.  An attack was also reported at a police traffic post in Makhachkala.<\/p>\n<p>There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attacks, but law enforcement agencies told TASS that the attackers were \u201cadherents of an international terrorist organization.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee of Russia for the Republic of Dagestan said it had launched a terror investigation into the attacks under the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/russia-seen-two-major-terror-090953207.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[315,108,115],"class_list":["post-14037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-russia","tag-terrorism","tag-terrorists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14037"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14039,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14037\/revisions\/14039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}