The extremist ringleader of the "Khasavyurt" gang was killed in a special forces' operation in Dagestan along with four other militants, Russia's National Anti-Terrorism Committee announced. Among the five dead was as 26-year-old Tural Atayev, native of Azerbaijan, “who was one of the organizers of the terrorist attack in the city of Pyatigorsk in December last year," the statement read, RT reported. During the raid one police officer was killed and one wounded. The gang was believed to be behind numerous assassination attempts, extortion, and arson.