Man and woman kidnapped in Dagestan

The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed by Svetlana Isaeva, chair of the NGO "Mothers of Dagestan for Human Rights" that in Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan, two persons were kidnapped yesterday in Kazbegova Street.

"I was called and told that unidentified armed persons in camouflage and masks seized a man and a woman and took them away to some unknown place. When I got to the place of the incident, the fact of kidnapping was confirmed.

Eyewitnesses said that the armed persons wanted to detain the man only, but the woman grasped them and started crying; therefore, she was also pushed into a car," said Isaeva.

"Nobody in the yard knows them; some high-ranking official lives in the house, from where they were taken away," she continued. "It is guarded by ordinary militiamen; when they heard the woman's cries, they made shots in the air, but the kidnappers paid no attention to them."