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|image = Свято-Георгиевский храм г. Кизляр.jpg
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|location=[[Kizlyar]], [[Dagestan]], [[Russia]]
|location=[[Kizlyar]], [[Dagestan]], [[Russia]]
|date=February 18, 2018
|date=18 February 2018
|type=Shooting
|type=Shooting
|fatalities=6 (including the shooter)
|fatalities=6 (including the shooter)
|injuries=4<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://dag.aif.ru/incidents/opublikovan_spisok_pogibshih_i_postradavshih_v_rezultate_strelby_v_kizlyare|title=Опубликован список погибших и пострадавших в результате стрельбы в Кизляре|date=Feb 18, 2018|website=dag.aif.ru|access-date=Oct 26, 2019}}</ref>
|injuries=4<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://dag.aif.ru/incidents/opublikovan_spisok_pogibshih_i_postradavshih_v_rezultate_strelby_v_kizlyare|title=Опубликован список погибших и пострадавших в результате стрельбы в Кизляре|date=Feb 18, 2018|website=dag.aif.ru|access-date=Oct 26, 2019}}</ref>
|perp={{flag|Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant}} (ISIL)
|perp={{flag|Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant}} (ISIL)
|assailant=Khalil Khalilov}}
|assailant=Khalil Khalilov
}}
On February 18, 2018, a 22-year-old man local to the Russia’s southern republic of [[Dagestan]] carrying a knife and a [[double-barreled shotgun]] opened fire on a crowd at an Orthodox church in [[Kizlyar]], killing five women and injuring several other people, including two police and three others.<ref name=NYT>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/18/world/europe/russia-dagestan-attack.html|title=ISIS Claims Deadly Attack on Church in Russian Region of Dagestan|last1=Kramer|first1=Andrew E.|date=18 February 2018|work=The New York Times|access-date=27 March 2018|last2=Callimachi|first2=Rukmini}}</ref> He was shot and killed by police on duty nearby.
On 18 February 2018, a 22-year-old man local to the Russia’s southern republic of [[Dagestan]] carrying a knife and a [[double-barreled shotgun]] opened fire on a crowd at an Orthodox church in [[Kizlyar]], killing five women and injuring several other people, including two police and three others.<ref name=NYT>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/18/world/europe/russia-dagestan-attack.html|title=ISIS Claims Deadly Attack on Church in Russian Region of Dagestan|last1=Kramer|first1=Andrew E.|date=18 February 2018|work=The New York Times|access-date=27 March 2018|last2=Callimachi|first2=Rukmini}}</ref> He was shot and killed by police on duty nearby.


The attack occurred as churchgoers celebrated the [[Sunday of Forgiveness]], the last day of [[Maslenitsa|Cheesefare week]], a Christian holiday marking the last day before [[Lent]] according to the eastern Orthodox calendar.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-dagestan-shooting/five-killed-in-attack-on-church-in-russias-dagestan-agencies-idUSKCN1G20NV|title=Five killed in attack on church in Russia's Dagestan: agencies|date=18 February 2018|work=[[Reuters]]|access-date=27 March 2018}}</ref>
The attack occurred as churchgoers celebrated the [[Sunday of Forgiveness]], the last day of [[Maslenitsa|Cheesefare week]], a Christian holiday marking the last day before [[Lent]] according to the eastern Orthodox calendar.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-dagestan-shooting/five-killed-in-attack-on-church-in-russias-dagestan-agencies-idUSKCN1G20NV|title=Five killed in attack on church in Russia's Dagestan: agencies|date=18 February 2018|work=[[Reuters]]|access-date=27 March 2018}}</ref>

Revision as of 23:38, 8 March 2021

Kizlyar church shooting
Part of Insurgency in the North Caucasus, Terrorism in Russia and Islamic terrorism in Europe
LocationKizlyar, Dagestan, Russia
Date18 February 2018
Attack type
Shooting
Deaths6 (including the shooter)
Injured4[1]
Perpetrator Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL)
AssailantKhalil Khalilov

On 18 February 2018, a 22-year-old man local to the Russia’s southern republic of Dagestan carrying a knife and a double-barreled shotgun opened fire on a crowd at an Orthodox church in Kizlyar, killing five women and injuring several other people, including two police and three others.[2] He was shot and killed by police on duty nearby.

The attack occurred as churchgoers celebrated the Sunday of Forgiveness, the last day of Cheesefare week, a Christian holiday marking the last day before Lent according to the eastern Orthodox calendar.[3]

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) named the man Khalil al-Dagestani, one of its soldiers. Police named him Khalil Khalilov.[4] Pro-ISIL social media later shared a video of a masked man with a shotgun and knife, said to be the killer, pledging his allegiance to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.[2]

References

  1. ^ "Опубликован список погибших и пострадавших в результате стрельбы в Кизляре". dag.aif.ru. Feb 18, 2018. Retrieved Oct 26, 2019.
  2. ^ a b Kramer, Andrew E.; Callimachi, Rukmini (18 February 2018). "ISIS Claims Deadly Attack on Church in Russian Region of Dagestan". The New York Times. Retrieved 27 March 2018.
  3. ^ "Five killed in attack on church in Russia's Dagestan: agencies". Reuters. 18 February 2018. Retrieved 27 March 2018.
  4. ^ "Russia Dagestan shooting: Five women killed in attack on churchgoers". BBC News. 19 February 2018. Retrieved 27 March 2018.

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