[kellyhound]

Seven suspected militants were killed by security forces in a shootout on Saturday near Makhachkala in Dagestan, a day after a grenade and bomb attack outside a restaurant in the regional capital injured several people.

A spokesman for Russia”s Anti-Terrorist Committee told ITAR-TASS agency those killed were suspected of carrying out Friday”s attack in the mostly Muslim Dagestan region.

Interfax news agency, citing the Investigative Committee department for Dagestan, said one woman was among the suspects killed when police stormed a house where they were hiding.

The Dagestan region has been plagued by bombings and shootings that target state and police officials as part of a campaign by militants to create an Islamist state there.

Regional capital Makhachkala is about 620 km east of the Black Sea resort of Sochi, the site of next month”s Winter Olympic Games, which President Vladimir Putin has made his top priority for promoting Russia”s image abroad.

Moscow has said it expects more than 6,000 athletes from 85 countries and hundreds of thousands of sports fans in Sochi.

It has introduced a security clampdown in the city, bringing in about 30,000 personnel to ensure safety after 34 people were killed last month in suicide bombings in Volgograd, some 700 km (400 miles) northeast of Sochi.

[DannyDrama]

Can't wait for the winter olympics, it's gonna be a bloodbath.

I've long thought it pretty strange that if a bomb goes off anywhere, travel advisories go batshit yet everyone has voted to hold a massive event in that bombed out shithole.

[Kelseecat65]

Originally Posted by DannyDrama ↗

Can't wait for the winter olympics, it's gonna be a bloodbath.

I've long thought it pretty strange that if a bomb goes off anywhere, travel advisories go batshit yet everyone has voted to hold a massive event in that bombed out shithole.

It's going to be interesting!

[Oswald2001]

Hang all imams.

Destroy all mosques.

Nuke Mecca.

For starters.

[Shakey]

Looks like they should have surrendered.