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Russian church shooting: Four people killed in Dagestan attack | Russian church shooting: Four people killed in Dagestan attack |
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A gunman has opened fire with a hunting rifle on churchgoers leaving a service in Russia's Dagestan region, killing four people and wounding four others. | |
Police then killed the assailant. | |
The shooting took place on Sunday evening in Kizlyar, a town of about 50,000 people on the border with Chechnya. | |
State news agency Tass cited mayor Alexander Shuvalov as saying four people were killed and four wounded. | |
The motive for the shooting was not immediately known. | |
Dagestan is a predominantly Muslim region between Chechnya and the Caspian Sea. | |
Following two separatist wars in neighbouring Chechnya, an Islamist insurgency spread to Dagestan. | |
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