Russia's National Anti-Terrorism Committee said on Monday that security forces had foiled a plot to launch terror attacks in Moscow by striking at a three-member group engaged in planning the attacks.
The Committee said in a statement that two of the plotters were killed in a raid carried out by its agents on a house n the town of Orekhovo-Zuyevo, east of the capital. Another suspect was detained, while one of the agents suffered minor injuries in the operation.
"During an active special operation the bandits were cut off, but when they were called on to surrender they opened fire. Thanks to the decisive actions of the law-enforcement agents, an attempt to carry out a terrorist act in the capital was thwarted," the statement said.
The Committee said all the three suspects were ethnic Russians, and are believed to have received training in the border region between Pakistan and Afghanistan. Nevertheless, it did not provide further information about the plot, citing the ongoing investigation.
Incidentally, the last major terrorist attack in Moscow was a suicide bombing at Domodedovo International Airport in January 2011. At least 37 people were killed and more than 110 others injured in that attack.
Prior to that incident, suicide bombings targeting the Lubyanka and Park Kultury stations in central Moscow in March 2010 had killed at least 40 people and left more than 60 others injured. Both the attacks have since been blamed on Islamist insurgents active in Russia's North Caucus region.
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