Operational headquarters confirmed the detention of the second participant in the attack on security forces in Ingushetia

The Operational Headquarters confirmed the detention of the second member of the gang involved in the attack on the traffic police post and a shootout with law enforcement officers.

“The Operational Headquarters in Ingushetia, detained a resident of the village of Kantyshevo M. Moshkhoev, born in 1998, in the course of a counter-terrorist operation,” it was reported.

As a source of Izvestia newspaper previously reported, the security forces discovered Moshkhoev when he was looking for food for the group members.

Earlier, they detained another person involved in the attack on the traffic police post, someone A. Bokov. According to a RIA Novosti source, the man surrendered to law enforcement officers.

On the night of April 6, FSB special forces, in cooperation with employees of the Russian Guard and the Ministry of Internal Affairs, cordoned the radicals in one of the households in the village of Zyazikov-Yurt in the course of the counter-terrorism operation. Three security officers were killed, eight more were injured. The terrorists managed to escape.