Unidentified people killed an officer of the police patrol and point duty service of the Interior Ministry Department for the Khasavyurt region in the village of Chontaul of Dagestan's Kizlyar region. As a representative of the SKR Investigation Department for the republic told Itar-Tass, "the incident occurred at 23.40 Moscow time. The police officer who was in his car died from bullet wounds." An investigation team of the Russian Investigation Committee for the Republic of Dagestan is working at the site of the incident.