FSB Detains 5 Daesh-linked Terror Suspects Planning Attacks in Russia

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The Russian Federal Security Service [FSB] detained five members of a group associated with the Daesh [ISIS/ISIL] terrorist group, who are believed to have been preparing to carry out terrorist attacks in Moscow and the southern Russian Republic of Ingushetia.

The group was created by a Daesh emissary who was eliminated during a special operation in Ingushetia in early October, FSB press service reported, as cited by Russian news agencies.

"Russia's FSB... has suppressed the activity of the group, which was designed to commit crimes of a terrorist and extremist nature on the territory of Ingushetia and Moscow and is connected with the international terrorist Daesh," the FSB reported.

Five members of the gang were detained in houses where they took refuge. The FSB has found an arsenal that included, among other things, five trunks of firearms, two ready-made improvised explosive devices [each equivalent to about 10 kilograms of TNT], and the components of a sniper rifle.

Earlier on Saturday, the Russian security services thwarted a plot to blow up targets in Moscow and St. Petersburg, the FSB reported. The suspects of Central Asian origin were arrested in collaboration with law enforcement in Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan, it has been reported.

"An operation conducted on November 12 in Moscow and St. Petersburg resulted in the arrests of 10 terrorists. They had a total of four powerful IEDs in their arsenals, which were seized," the FSB said in a statement on Saturday, adding that the suspects "confessed to having contacts with leaders of the terrorist group Daesh based in the Middle East."

"They also identified targets of their attack, accomplices and a support base, both in Russia and in other countries," it added.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team