2014 Dagestan House Siege

On the night of 15 January, Russian Special Forces laid siege to a house in the village of Karlanyurt, Dagestan. The four suspected Islamic militants cornered in the house put up stiff resistance to Russian command. In a bid to escape in the darkness, militants opened fire with machine-guns and grenades. Russian commandos managed to stop them from escaping but at a cost of three of their own. One of the dead suspects was identified as Marat Idrisov, a militant commander in the Khasavyurt area who is said to have organised a bomb attack on the Russian city of Pyatigorsk on 27 December. Another dead suspect was named as local man Rustam Dagirov, accused of supplying fighters with food and medicine and allowing his home to be used for assembling bombs.