Three people were wounded in a shootout near a rural school in Dagestan.

A shootout involving six people occurred near a school in the village of Untsukul. Three people were hospitalized with injuries.

A conflict involving six adults occurred near the school in the village of Untsukul, during which non-lethal weapons were used. As a result, three people were injured, the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs reported on its Telegram channel.

The three men injured in the shootout in Untsukul are undergoing surgery at the Untsukul Central District Hospital. A team from the Dagestan Center for Disaster Medicine, including an abdominal surgeon and a vascular surgeon, has been dispatched to the district, the Dagestan Ministry of Health reported on its Telegram channel.

The Dagestan Prosecutor's Office announced that it is monitoring the procedural investigation into the shootout.

According to sources, several local residents decided to clear up an old dispute and visited an acquaintance who lives near the school. The conversation quickly escalated into a fight, after which gunfire erupted from traumatic pistols. The gunshots alarmed residents: many thought the shooting was taking place right inside the school. Three adults were injured. The children were unharmed. All participants in the conflict have been detained, and police are working with them, the "Tut Dagestan" Telegram channel reported.

"Caucasian Knot" wrote that on February 14, the acting Alibulat Magomedov, director of the Unified State Contracting Authority, and Saipulakadi Magomedov, head of the Kirovsky District Department of Makhachkala's Municipal Budgetary Institution "Improvement," armed with firearms, clashed with contractors building a school in the Tabasaran District. The school, located in the village of Khurik, had missed deadlines three times, and nearly a billion rubles had been allocated for its construction. During the clash, they fired shots at four of the participants, inflicting multiple gunshot wounds. Alibulat Magomedov was wounded in the shootout, and the second official, Saipulakadi Magomedov, has been charged with attempted murder.