MAKHACHKALA. June 25 (Interfax) - Another police officer heavily injured in a terror attack in the Russian republic of Dagestan last weekend has died, head of the Dagestani Derbent district administration Mavsum Ragimov said.
"Another young police sergeant died last night," Ragimov said on Telegram on Tuesday morning. He said the deceased was 24 years old.
The Derbent Central City Hospital told Interfax that police sergeant Nariman Nasrullayev was a critical patient of an intensive care unit. "Five patients remain there [in the ICU], including three in moderately severe condition and one in severe condition," the hospital said.
As reported, the Sunday terror attacks in Dagestan killed 20 people, including 15 police officers, and injured 26 people.
On June 23, armed militants attacked a synagogue and a church in Derbent, and a church and a traffic police post near a synagogue in Makhachkala.
Five militants were killed and are being identified. According to Dagestan head Sergei Melikov, the attacks were perpetrated by residents of the Sergokala district of Dagestan.
Criminal cases were opened on counts of terror attack, illegal procurement, possession and transformation of firearms, and theft of firearms.
Dagestan is in mourning on June 24-26.