Russia: Beggar Hailed as a Hero after Giving Her Life to Stop Terrorist's Attack on Church

Will Maule : Feb 26, 2018 Faithwire.com

"All people who were at the temple and on the yard in front of it stayed alive due to our Believer Irina Melkomova. While she attracted the killer's attention, the Believers managed to hide inside the temple."

[Faithwire.com] A poverty-stricken woman is being hailed as a hero after bravely confronting a terrorist gunman who opened fire at a church in southern Russia earlier this month, the Caucasian Knot reported. (Photo: Friends and family mourn the dead after a shooting at a church in Russia's volatile Dagestan region/credit: East2west News/via Faithwire.com)

Irina Melkomova, whom authorities believe to be around 60 years old, began shouting and hitting the Islamist attacker with her bags outside St. George the Victorious Church in the town of Kizlyar, before being shot dead.

Four other people, all of whom were women, were murdered on Feb. 18 by a 22-year-old gunman who went on a rampage at the Russian Orthodox church. Witnesses say Melkomova's actions gave other congregants the chance to lock the church doors, likely saving many lives...

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