Russian police have arrested a group of people they said were planning a terror attack on Moscow, the country’s anti-terrorism committee said, without giving details about the group’s motives.
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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.
Russia’s intelligence agency says the men detained on Sunday in a suspected terrorist plot were Russians who had been trained by the Islamic State group in Syria.
A self-made explosive device was found and now rendered harmless in a residential house, a spokesman of the committee said.
The identity of the arrested suspects has not been released.
Russian forces have been carrying out security operations against purported al-Qaeda-linked militants in the Northern Caucasus during the past two decades.
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Russia’s airstrikes in Syria have been met by warnings that they encourage Islamic extremists to turn their sights on Russia and make it easier for them to recruit Russian Muslims.
