Russian agents foil ‘Islamic State’ terror attack

From Deutsche Welle.

Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) said Saturday it had prevented an attack by a terrorist group with links to the Islamic State (IS) armed group.

The FSB said it had arrested four people who were set to carry out the offensive in the troubled southern republic of Dagestan.

“Members of the group planned to detonate an explosive close to an administrative building belonging to security services, followed by an armed attack against interior ministry employees in the city of Makhachkala,” the FSB said in a statement.

As well as arresting four “members of the international IS terrorist group”, investigators found “firearms and bladed weapons, a large amount of ammunition and an explosive device”, the FSB statement continued. The security service also uncovered mobile phones containing “exchanges with organizers located abroad.”

According to the staement, the group planned to detonate an explosive device near one of the administrative buildings of law enforcement agencies, followed by an armed attack on the Interior Ministry officers in the Republic of Dagestan.The identities of the terrorists were not disclosed in the interests of the investigation.