10-11-15
A group of people who were plotting a terrorist attack in the Russian capital have been detained, Russia’s National Anti-Terrorism Committee said on Sunday, adding that an improvised explosive device had been found and defused.
The perpetrators were arrested in an apartment in central Moscow, the National Anti-Terrorist Committee said in a press release.
The operation was carried out as part of a series of criminal investigations resulting in the arrest of an unspecified number of people.
“In the flat, where the gunmen were hiding out, a self-made explosive device has been found and defused,” said Andrey Chatskiy, spokesman for the National Anti-Terrorism Committee’s information center.
“In the flat, where the gunmen were hiding out, a self-made explosive device has been found and defused,” said Andrey Chatskiy, spokesman for the National Anti-Terrorism Committee’s information center.
Russia’s National Anti-terrorism Committee says it has arrested a group of people preparing to carry out a terrorist attack in Moscow.
The counter-terrorism agency said that it detained suspects during raids carried out in various parts of the capital, Moscow, on Sunday.
The anti-terrorism body said that an improvised explosive device (IED) was discovered at one of the apartments and was defused.
“At the flat where the bandits were hiding, an improvised explosive device was found and defused,” TASS news agency quoted the committee as saying in a statement on Sunday.
The Russian security forces have not immediately released details about the identities of the suspects.
TASS cited sources as saying that the target of the terrorist attack was to be in the Moscow.
Russian forces have been carrying out security operations against purported al-Qaeda-linked militants in the Northern Caucasus during the past two decades.
Russia has been targeted by terrorist attacks many times in the past.
The developments come as senior authorities in Russia say hundreds of Chechens have left for Syria to join Takfiri Daesh militants since the beginning of the conflict in the Arab country in 2011.
Moscow began a military campaign against terrorists in Syria on September 30 upon a request from the Damascus government, shortly after the upper house of the Russian parliament gave President Vladimir Putin the mandate to use military force in Syria.
Moscow says its ongoing campaign against militant groups in Syria could thwart terrorist attacks against Russia and several other nations.
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