MOSCOW — The Russian counterintelligence agency, the FSB, says Wednesday its agents have killed two men suspected of planning to carry out terror attacks in Russia.
The FSB says the suspects, both from Central Asia, were killed in a shootout when they resisted arrest in a home in the Vladimir region east of Moscow. They were in contact with recruiters from international terror organizations, had shown an interest in making bombs and expressed a readiness to carry out attacks in Russia, it says in a statement.
The agency has appeared eager to demonstrate its ability to prevent attacks following this month’s suicide bombing on the St. Petersburg subway that killed 14 passengers. The bomber was from Kyrgyzstan, one of the impoverished, predominantly Muslim former Soviet republics in Central Asia that are seen as fertile ground for Islamic extremists.
The FSB doesn’t identify the suspects killed, saying only that they were citizens of one of the Central Asian countries. An FSB video broadcast on state television shows the bodies of the two men, one with a Kalashnikov automatic rifle lying next to him. The video also shows a collection of what are described as components for making explosives.
— AP
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