MOSCOW, April 8 (RIA Novosti) – Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) has detained several suspects behind the deadly terrorist attacks in two cities in southern Russia last year, FSB Director Alexander Bortnikov said on Tuesday.
“The terrorist acts in the cities of Volgograd and Pyatigorsk have been solved. A group of individuals behind the preparation and perpetration of these crimes have been detained,” Bortnikov said at a session of the National Anti-Terrorism Committee.
Russia’s city of Volgograd was hit by major terrorist attacks last year, which were strongly condemned by the West. In October, a suicide bomber killed seven people on a passenger bus in the city. In late December, two suicide bombings at a train station and on a trolleybus in Volgograd in less than 24 hours killed a combined total of 34 people and injured many more.
Two days before the Volgograd blasts, three people were killed when a car exploded in front of a traffic police building in the southern city of Pyatigorsk on December 27. The power of the blast was equivalent to 50 kilograms of TNT.
