Official: Moscow subway attacks plotter killed
Police in southern Russia said security forces today killed the man suspected of organising the Moscow underground bombings in March that killed 40 people and wounded more than 100.
A police spokesman in the Dagestan province said Madomedali Vagabov was killed along with four others during an exchange of fire with special forces.
Spokesman Vyacheslav Gadhzhiyev said the house the suspects were holed up in caught fire during the shootout.
The National Antiterrorism Committee said in a statement that Vagabov was effectively second in command in the separatist insurgency in Russia’s North Caucasus region.
The head, Doku Umarov, claimed responsibility for the attacks, carried out by two female suicide bombers.
