MOSCOW, September 5 (RIA Novosti) - A militant who planned to carry out a terrorist attack in Moscow was killed in Chechnya last night, the Russian North Caucasus republic's interior ministry said Saturday.
"A Makarov pistol, a grenade with a fuse, seven electric detonators with wires and a 'shahid's belt' were discovered and confiscated at the scene. The criminal had a railroad ticket for the Kizlyar-Moscow train. According to available operational information, he planned to carry out a terrorist act in Moscow," the ministry said.
The militant was killed when he put up armed resistance on Friday evening in a forest in the Gudermes District.
Russia's mainly Muslim North Caucasus regions have seen a rise in violence in recent months. Attacks on police, officials and troops have been reported almost daily in Ingushetia and Dagestan that border Chechnya, which saw two separatist wars in the late 1990s-early 2000s.
Ingushetia was rocked on August 17 by a suicide bombing which killed at least 24 police officers and injured 136.
The rise in violence followed the Kremlin officially announcing an end of its anti-terrorism campaign in the region.
