But unlike the suicide bombings in Turkey, the alleged attackers in Moscow had planned to set off their explosives with a mobile phone-based detonator, the source said, Interfax reported.
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The National Anti-Terrorism Committee (NAC) said on October. 11 that security services had detained a group of persons in Strelbishchensky Lane in the Moscow Central Administrative District on suspicion of preparing a terror attack.
“At the flat where the bandits were hiding, an improvised explosive device was found and defused”, TASS news agency quoted the committee as saying in a statement on Sunday.
Details about the alleged plot or the identities of the suspects were not immediately known.
Putin has cited the dangers of Islamic State (IS) militants potentially carrying out terrorist attacks in Russian Federation in defending Moscow’s decision to carry out air strikes against positions held by the extremist group in Syria.
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The attack was believed to be carried out by two women from the Muslim separatist Caucasus Emirate group.
