Russian commandos kill 4 militants in St. Petersburg
Russian special forces soldiers have killed four suspected militants during anti-terror operations in the city of Saint Petersburg.
According to a statement released by Russia’s National Anti-Terrorism Committee (NAC) on Wednesday, the militants “received lethal wounds in a swift gunfight” with Federal Security Service (FSB) forces in an apartment complex in the city’s district of Kirovsky .
The committee noted that at least three of the slain militants were wanted over connections to several terror attacks and assassination attempts in Russia’s North Caucasus.
“All three of them were on the federal wanted list as the leaders of the terrorist underground on the territory of [the Russian republic of] Kabardino-Balkaria. They were directly involved in a number of high-profile terrorist crimes, including attempts on the lives of law enforcement officers and prosecutors,” added the statement.
It said that a cache of guns, ammunition and several improvised explosive devices were also found in the apartment in which the terrorists were hiding.
“During their detention, they resisted and attempted to kill the officers by opening fire. Four suspects have been killed,” said NAC spokesman Vladimir Markin.
He noted that the apartment block was not evacuated during the raid and that no civilians were injured in the operations.
Elsewhere in the country, police killed two men armed with guns and axes after they attacked traffic police in the town of Balashikha, located some 20 kilometers (12 miles) east of the capital city of Moscow. The men, reportedly Central Asians, wounded two policemen before they were killed.
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