"Within a day, officers of the Criminal Investigation Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Republic of Dagestan identified and arrested a suspect in a serious crime," the agency said in Instagram.
According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, during the arrest, the suspect resisted law enforcement officers, one of them received stab wounds to the abdomen and shoulder.
The victim was hospitalized.
His life is out of danger.
It is clarified that the detainee is suspected of killing 34-year-old and 29-year-old women, whose bodies with stab wounds were found in the bathroom of an apartment in a multi-storey building in Makhachkala.
Earlier it was reported that in Dagestan, a policeman was wounded while detaining a suspect.