Muslim terrorists shouting ‘allahu akbar!’ kill two police officers and one worshipper as they try to storm Russian Orthodox church in Chechen city which will host Egypt in World Cup

Father Sergiy, the priest at Archangel Michael Church, said a service was being held when participants heard shots and chants of “Allahu akbar” outside. He told the Russian state RIA Novosti news agency they scrambled to shut the doors and secured the bolts just as the assailants tried to break in. (AP)

Gunmen kill two police officers and one worshipper as they try to storm Russian Orthodox church in Chechen city which will host Egypt in World Cup (Daily Mail)

• According to reports they were armed with guns, knives, axes and petrol bombs
• They attacked the church in Grozny, in the mainly Muslim province of Chechnya
• Attackers tried to take hostages Archangel Michael Church in centre of Grozny
• The city will not see any matches during the World Cup but will be Egypt’s base
• He said one parishioner who was outside was killed, while the person injured was inside the church.
• https://twitter.com/OnlineMagazin/status/1000332535568785409

The Chechen leader said three of the attackers were residents of Chechnya and one came from a neighboring region. He alleged that intelligence data indicated they had received orders for the attack “from a Western nation.”

Gunmen Attack Church in Russia’s Chechnya Region, Killing 3
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The police outside the Archangel Michael Church in Grozny, Chechnya, site of an attack by gunmen on Saturday.CreditMusa Sadulayev/Associated Press

By Ivan Nechepurenko and Megan Special, NY Times, May 19, 2018

MOSCOW — Four gunmen stormed a church in Russia’s predominantly Muslim region of Chechnya on Saturday, killing at least one churchgoer and two police officers, according to authorities.

All the attackers were killed in an exchange of gunfire with the police at the Archangel Michael Church in the center of Grozny, the capital, according to the Investigative Committee of Russia, an internal security agency.

The gunmen initially took hostages, the leader of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, said, adding that the assailants were armed with knives, hatchets and homemade explosives as well.

It was not immediately clear whether there was any link between the attackers and extremist groups. But Chechnya has experienced attacks by Islamist extremists before, including those who pledged allegiance to the Islamic State.

Women and men from majority Muslim areas of Russia, including Chechnya, have traveled to Syria and Iraq to fight alongside the Islamic State there, and dozens have begun to return as the group has lost most of its territory.

The restive region of Chechnya was the site of two separatist wars in the 1990s. Following those conflicts, Mr. Kadyrov, with the backing of the Russian government, has cracked down on dissent. Human rights groups have accused his forces of abuses including torture, kidnapping and murder.

Grozny once had a substantial ethnic Russian, Christian population but most of them fled during the wars. The church that was attacked Saturday is in the center of the city and was at the heart of some of the battles of the 1990s.

Mr. Kadyrov condemned Saturday’s assault and said he immediately went to the church and was with the police as they responded. He vowed to crush anyone who attempted attacks in his region.

“I once again very seriously declare that you can try to commit any actions aimed at undermining the security of the residents of Grozny and other settlements,” he said. “But anyone who makes the first step along this path will be immediately destroyed.” He made the statement via the Telegram messaging app, where he regularly posts information after being kicked off both Instagram and Facebook after he was added to a United States sanctions list.

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Dick Bates

5 years ago

DEATH TO ISLAM !!!!!!!!

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R. Arandas

5 years ago

I hope Russia can join the rest of Christendom when the jihadists come to wage open war against us!

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Suresh

5 years ago

Reply to  R. Arandas

Agree. while Hungary keeps jihadis out and deports Left/liberal pro-jihadi Loons http://bit.ly/2gh6A72

Europe denies christians and welcomes their murderers.

Russia like others should follow chinese policy to survive a worsening jihadi crisis ahead.

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CanadaGoose1

5 years ago

More Ramadan fun. I guess they get extra virgins or points if attacks carried out in this period.

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Trident

5 years ago

Spread the word everyone

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fuzzybuzzard

5 years ago

I wonder which western nation the attack orders come from? It wouldn’t surprise me if the attack orders came from Washington, D.C., via, the home of Obama and his OFA organization. Also, I wonder which U.S. presidential administration put the sanctions on Mr. Kadyrov that caused Facistbook and Instagram to ban him? Again, that sounds like something the radical Obama would do, after all, Obama is a devout muslim. I’m surprised Putin hasn’t deported and banned muslims from Russia.

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IzlamDownpressesHumanity

5 years ago

Reply to  fuzzybuzzard

Putin deport and ban muslums? Putin invited the pig and piglet of islum, Erdogan and Abbas to Moscow to consecrate a mosquetrosity there. Putin has supplied Iran w/their most advanced SAM systems.

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