A gunman shouting, “Allahu akbar,” opened fire on worshipers leaving a church Sunday service in Kizlyar, in the Dagestan region of Russia, killing five women and wounding several others, according to a Russian state news agency.
Churchgoers said they had prevented more casualties by closing the door to the church and stopping the attacker from getting inside. The man was later shot and killed by security forces on duty at the time, reports said.
The Islamic State claimed credit for the attack on the church, issuing a bulletin on its Amaq news agency, followed by a lengthier official statement in which the group described the assailant as a “soldier of the caliphate.”
Not long afterward, pro-Islamic State media channels showed a video of a man said to be the assailant sitting before the Islamic State flag, his face covered by a ski mask with weapons that would later be used in the attack. In the video, the man pledges allegiance to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the Islamic State leader, referring to him as “the Emir of the believers.”
The attack took place in Kizlyar, a town of about 50,000 people on the Terek River delta on the border with Chechnya. Dagestan is a predominantly Muslim region between Chechnya and the Caspian Sea.
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