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Daesh Leaders Plotting Terrorist Attacks in Russia

© Sputnik / Igor Zarembo / Go to the mediabankFSB officers carry out a plan of action to secure captured terrorists in a building in anti-terrorism exercises in the sea port of Kaliningrad.
FSB officers carry out a plan of action to secure captured terrorists in a building in anti-terrorism exercises in the sea port of Kaliningrad. - Sputnik International
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Moscow has evidence that Daesh is plotting terrorist attacks in Russia and other parts of the world.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) — There is evidence that Daesh jihadist group leaders are plotting terrorist acts in Russia, Federal Security Service (FSB) director Alexander Bortnikov said at a National Antiterrorism Committee session Tuesday.

"At present, a large amount of operational information is coming out indicating that leaders of terrorist groups operating in the Middle East as part of the so-called Islamic State [Daesh] are intent on carrying out terrorist attacks in various regions of the world, including in Russia," Bortnikov said.

A woman lays flowers in memory of victims of a blast in St.Petersburg metro, at Tekhnologicheskiy institut metro station in St. Petersburg, Russia, April 4, 2017 - Sputnik International
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On April 3, an explosion occurred in the St. Petersburg underground on the stretch of rail between the Sennaya Ploshchad and Tekhnologichesky Institut metro stations at around 3 p.m. local time (12:00 GMT). The blast killed at least 14 people, according to Russian Minister of Healthcare Veronika Skvortsova. Forty-nine people were wounded.

Russia's Investigative Committee has opened a criminal investigation into a suspected terrorist attack but is also checking other versions.

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