Moscow:
Russian security services said on Friday they had arrested three people from “Central Asian countries” who were planning an attack in the country’s south, news agencies reported.
Russia’s Federal Security Service said in a statement that it “put an end to the terrorist activities of three nationals from Central Asian countries who planned to carry out terrorist acts by blowing up a device in a public place in the Stavropol region”. explain.
Russian television showed footage of several men being pushed to the ground by FSB agents.
RIA Novosti said that components and chemicals of an improvised explosive device (IED) were found in the home of one of the suspects.
The news comes a week after last Friday’s massacre at the Krokos City concert hall in the Moscow suburbs, which left at least 144 people dead.
The Stavropol region is located in the North Caucasus region of southern Russia, bordering Dagestan and Chechnya.
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