RUSSIA — (Scroll Down For Video) — Four people have been killed and several others are injured following an attack on a crowd of churchgoers in Dagestan in southern Russia, local police confirmed.
The shooter was eventually killed by security forces.
“People were leaving a church after an evening service when he opened gunfire at them,” a Russian official told the news outlet TASS.
“There were a lot of people there, moms with little children, elderly people. I believe God saved us, not allowing the man to get inside the church,” a witness said.
Surveillance video shows the gunman before the attack and as he opened fire on worshipers leaving the service.
The gunman has only been identified as a local man in his early 20s.
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