16 December 2013, 15:35
NAC: persons killed in KBR had planned terror acts
The four persons killed during a special operation in the village of Bylym, Elbrus District of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), had been involved in a number of high-profile crimes, the operational headquarters for the KBR reports. They planned in the near future to commit several terror acts and attacks on law enforcers, the National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC) of the Russian Federation reports.
The gang, where, according to the police, the above casualties were members, was involved in the murders of two tourists in the Gil-Su Gorge in August 2010; Vasily Sibiryatkin, the Ataman of the Terek-Malka Cossack Community, in September 2010; employees of the FSB Department for the Krasnodar Territory in August 2010; as well as Guliev spouses – employees of the Neutrino Observatory of the Russian Academy of Sciences, in October 2011, says the Department for the KBR of the Russian FSB.
At the venue of the special operation, power agents found weapons and ammunition, and in the basement of the blocked house – a "laboratory" for manufacture of improvised explosive devices (IEDs).
The "Caucasian Knot" has informed that the special operation in Bylym was held on December 15-16. In the morning on December 15, power agents blocked the house with suspected militants inside, who, after negotiations, let to evacuate a woman with a baby out of the house. In response to an offer to surrender, the militants opened fire. In the shootout, a law enforcer was wounded and two militants were killed.
Author: Lyudmila Maratova Source: CK correspondent