Chilling footage has emerged showing the crazed ‘ISIS’ knifeman who stabbed seven people in a Russian city working as a smiling supermarket security guard worker just a year before the brutal attack.
The clip shows Artur Gadzhiev, 19, working in a Perekrestor grocery shop in Surgut less than a year ago.
Gadzhiev is known to have come from the village of Alamishe in the Suleiman-Stalsky district of Dagestan. He finished school in Dagestan before moving to Siberia.
Chilling footage has emerged showing the crazed ‘ISIS’ knifeman who stabbed seven people in a Russian city working as a smiling supermarket security guard worker just a year before the brutal attack
New details emerged today about Gadzhiev who wore a fake suicide belt as he staged his attack with a machete and axe after sipping lemonade in an outdoor cafe in Surgut.
Sources say his father is reportedly in jail for murder after a drunken rampage.
A grim video released earlier showed the moment Gadzhiev was shot dead by a chasing policeman as he fled on foot after refusing to surrender.
Clad in black and wearing a balaclava, he had ignited a small explosive device and used an axe on his first victim.
Gadzhiev (pictured after being shot) wore a fake suicide belt as he staged his attack with a machete and axe after sipping lemonade in an outdoor cafe in Surgut
The attacker, named as 19-year-old Artur Gadzhiev, was shot dead by police in a busy main street in Surgut
ISIS claimed responsibility for the attack but the Russian secret services are probing whether the teenager – originally from Dagestan 2,400 miles from where the attack happened – was acting under orders of a jihadist commander or staged a copycat attack.
Moscow chiefs have taken charge of the probe in Surgut, some 1,750 miles east of the capital.
Terrorism has not been ruled out, according to Svetlana Petrenko, spokeswoman for the Russian Investigative Committee.
‘The home of the attacker has been searched,’ she said.
Police in the town of Surgut say Gadzhiev died around 11.20am local time, but only after stabbing eight people in an ISIS-inspired attack
‘The circumstances of the crime and the motives of the attacker are being established now.
‘At the moment the investigators are considering all possible reasons for this crime.’
He was not known as a regular mosque worshipper in Surgut, said Nizami Magomedov, an official representative of Dagestan in the Khanty-Mansi region of Siberia.
‘For me it is double pain as the offender is from my native village, he was born in the village of Alamishe,’ he said.
But he said: ‘He acted without preparation, more as a maniac – went out with a machete into the street and began to shred everyone who came across his eyes.
A video of the Russian teenage knifeman, appearing to plant and ignite an explosive device in a shopping mall before going on a stabbing spree, emerged earlier
Surgut is the largest city of the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Area region with a population of around 350,000
Nobody was killed in the assault but victims (one pictured left) needed immediate medical treatment, said officers. Right: Detectives as the scene where the knifeman was shot
‘I have spoken with guys who knew him and worked with him as a security guard.
‘Everyone speaks of him as an apparently calm, but closed and unsociable person.’
His father ‘is now in jail for murder commited in the state of alcohol intoxication’, he said.
Dr Andrey Mironov, who is treating the victims, said: ‘We have six people in our hospital now, four in intensive care.
‘These are the first days after injuries, it is hard to make any forecasts about their future rehabilitation.’
Dr Andrey Mironov, who is treating the victims, said: ‘We have six people in our hospital now, four in intensive care.’ Pictured, police and bystanders at the scene of the attack
He was not known as a regular mosque worshipper in Surgut, said Nizami Magomedov, official representative of Dagestan in the Khanty-Mansi region of Siberia. Pictured, the attacker (far right) after being shot by police
He said: ‘Those who are in the intensive care have talked to me this morning when I visited them.
‘All of them are in a hard condition, one can’t breath by himself.
‘Two of them failed to confirm their identify. They did not have any documents so we don’t know all names yet.’
Surgut is the largest city of the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Area region with a population of around 350,000.
It is a major centre for oil and gas production in the country.