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Ex–Salafi preacher shot dead in Daghestan

8 January 2018 by OC Media

A 33-year-old ex–Salafi preacher was shot dead in Daghestan on 6 January. Say­gi­dakhmed Magomedov was killed near his house in the village of Mutsalaul, in Daghestan’s Khasavyurt District.

A source in Dagh­es­tani law enforce­ment told OC Media that Magomedov was at home with his family when at around 22:00, several unknown men called him into the street.

‘Later, Magomedov’s body was found with gunshots near the gate of the house. The family did not hear the shots. Pre­sum­ably, the killers used a silencer’, the source said.

The motives for the killing are being inves­ti­gat­ed, and a criminal case has been launched for murder and illegal pos­ses­sion of a weapon. The Inves­tiga­tive Committee say they are con­sid­er­ing all pos­si­bil­i­ties.

Magomedov left behind a wife and five children.

Several media outlets have reported that Magomedov was an imam in Mutsalaul, but the source in law enforce­ment said that at the time of the murder he was no longer preaching.

A month ago, the Salafi mosque where Magomedov worked was closed, according to Kavkaz.Realii. They also say that another imam at the mosque, Magomed Payzul­layev, had fled to Egypt after receiving threats from law enforce­ment agents.

Magomedov is the third imam killed in Daghestan since September 2015; another three have been forced from their posts, Caucasian Knot reports .

[Read on OC Media: Dagh­es­tani author­i­ties refuse to reopen Salafi mosque]

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