KHASAVYURT. April 14 (Interfax-South) - The leader of a local criminal armed group has been killed in Dagestan's Khasavyurt district, a district police spokesman told Interfax.
"Ismail Yangizbiyev, with at least a dozen terror attacks on his criminal record, was killed in a wooded area near the village of Pokrovskoye," he said.
Yangizbiyev was spotted at about 11 p.m., Moscow time on Saturday. He refused to surrender, and was killed after he got into a fight with federal law enforcement officers, the spokesman also said.
"Yangizbiyev was suspected of killing police officers in the Khasavyurt district and in Pokrovoskoye. He was also suspected of blasting police vehicles and carrying our armed attacks against law enforcement officials," he said.