Four people were killed and four others were injured after a gunman on Sunday opened fire on people leaving a church service in Russia's Dagestan region.
According to Russian news agency TASS, the incident occurred outside a church in the town of Kizlyar.
"Four people were killed. The shooter was shot dead," the agency quoted Kizlyar's mayor Alexander Shuvalov, as saying.
The motive for the shooting is yet to be ascertained.