21 April 2017, 13:31 GMT
MOSCOW (Sputnik) — According to the data obtained by the security forces, the criminals planned to carry out attacks "including killings of religious figures and other civilian people."
"Those in the car opened fire from the automatic weapon and tried to escape. The two criminals were eliminated with retaliatory fire. The neutralized criminals were preliminarily identified: one of them was the leader of the cell who had been trained in the IS [Daesh] camps and arrived to Russia to carry out terror attacks, while the other was its active member," the statement said.
