The bomber was a Salafi Muslim, and the killing was a manifestation of the tension between the republic’s traditional Sunni Sufis and a growing fundamentalist movement, according to Dagestani blogger Saif Nuri.
كان الاغتيال من مظاهر التوتر بين الصوفيين والسلفيين، وفقا للمدون الداغستاني سيف نوري.