Over 150 active participants of the riots at Makhachkala airport have been identified, 60 of them have been detained, the Interior Ministry says, TASS reports.
"The employees of Dagestan’s Interior Ministry in cooperation with other law enforcement bodies managed to suppress these violations. At present, the airport is fully under the control of law enforcement bodies. More than 150 active participants of the riots have been identified, 60 of them have been detained and taken to local police departments for further investigation," the statement said.
According to the ministry, nine police officers were injured, two of them are in hospital.
On the evening of October 29, several hundred people gathered at Makhachkala's airport to protest against the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. The demonstrators broke through the fence and entered the runway and the airport building. An operational headquarters was set up, it is headed by the head of the region Sergey Melikov. He said that the actions of those gathered at the airport were a gross violation of the law and would be evaluated by law enforcement agencies.
