MOSCOW, July 14 (RAPSI) – The North Caucasus District Military Court has sentenced a group of terrorists that were convicted of attacking a police station in southern Russia’s Pyatigorsk in December 2013 to long prison sentences, the court’s press secretary, Alyona Katkalo, told RAPSI on Tuesday.

“Murad Atayev and Shamil Abdulazizov were given life sentences, Ramazan and Vladimir Khalizov received 23 years and 18 years, respectively, Magomed Ibragimov will spend 19 years in prison and Shamil Gazimagomedov 17 years,” Katkalo said.

According to investigators, on December 27, 2013 the Khasavyurt Sector, a terrorist cell of the Islamist Jihadist group Vilayat Dagestan, blew up a car at a traffic police station in Pyatigorsk, a resort city in the Stavropol Territory in southern Russia, killing three people.