FIVE people were killed and several others were injured after a gunman opened fire with a hunting rifle on people leaving a church service in Russia’s Dagestan region on Sunday, Russian media outlets reported. The shooting took place outside a church in the town of Kizlyar, a town of about 50,000 people on the border with Chechnya. The gunman was shot dead by police responding to the scene, a law enforcement source told the Interfax news agency. Dagestan and its neighbor Chechnya have been wracked by separatist and Islamic violence in recent years.
A gunman kills five people and wounds several others at a church in Kizlyar, Dagestan, Russia. Police later shoot and kill him.