The leader of the international terrorist organization Katibat Tawhid wal-Jihad (banned in the Kyrgyz Republic. — Note of 24.kg news agency), Sirojiddin Mukhtarov, was eliminated. Interfax reports citing the Russian military.
«According to the information received, as a result of the strike by the Russian Aerospace Forces on a militant camp in Idlib province on September 8, the leader of the illegal armed formation Katibat Tawhid wal-Jihad Mukhtarov Sirojiddin Ziyavutdinovich (Abu Saloh), who was involved in organizing terrorist attacks on government forces and civil infrastructure facilities in Syria, was eliminated,» Oleg Yegorov, deputy head of the Russian Center for the Reconciliation of Conflicting Sides in the Syrian Arab Republic, said at a briefing on Friday.
According to Russian and Kyrgyz security officials, he was a native of Kyrgyzstan. The man was born and raised in Kashkar-Kyshtak village, Osh region. Sirojiddin Mukhtarov left Kyrgyzstan in 2013.
Security services of Russia believe that the terrorist organization Katibat Tawhid wal-Jihad is involved in organizing a terrorist attack in the St. Petersburg metro in April 2017, which killed 15 people and injured about 100 more. Russian investigators called Sirojiddin Mukhtarov the mastermind behind the attack.
According to the State Committee for National Security, Sirojiddin Mukhtarov participated in organizing the terrorist attack at the Chinese Embassy in Kyrgyzstan in August 2016. Then the suicide bomber entered the territory of the diplomatic mission and detonated his suicide vest. The perpetrator of the attack was killed, three employees of the Embassy were injured.
