Short incident summary
A group of people attacked security services in Makhachkala using assault rifles during a document check. Three members of the security services and two attackers were killed. Accounts of the number of attackers varied, but some attackers appeared to have escaped; one was detained. Later sources also seemed to settle on five wounded. The authorities classified the event as a terrorist attack.
Event in review
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Incident start date
05/05/2025
Incident finish date
05/05/2025
Incident location republic
Dagestan
Incident location city
Makhachkala
Incident location details
Intersection of Ulitsa Magomedtagirova and Ulitsa Kerimova
Latitude
Longitude
Location specificity
Precise
Incident type
Attack
Weapons used
Small arms
Perpetrator type
Rebel
Perpetrator group
Number of perpetrators
4
Target type
Security services
Number of casualties (low)
5
Number of casualties (high)
11
Number killed (low)
5
Number killed (high)
5
Number injured (low)
0
Number injured (high)
6
Security services killed
3
Civilian killed
Insurgents killed
2
Number detained
1
Incident linked to
Additional notes
The attackers took advantage of a road traffic accident and at least one escaped in a police car. The two men killed were identified as Batal Magomedovich Magomedov and Akhmed Shamilovich Alimagomedov, both born in 2000.