Russia’s FSB foils bomb attack in Yekaterinburg, arrests four By Reuters

(Reuters) – Russia’s Security Service (FSB) said on Saturday it had foiled a major attack in the Urals city of Yekaterinburg and arrested four youths it said were plotting a bomb attack. a bomb in a crowded place.

The FSB said it had seized parts of an improvised explosive device and that investigators in the Sverdlovsk region had opened a criminal case.

The four teenagers are Russian citizens born in 2007 and 2008, the FSB said. He did not call them by name.

The FSB said that those arrested “shared the ideology of a terrorist organization banned in Russia and planned to carry out a terrorist act using an improvised explosive device” in the densely populated areas of Yekaterinburg.

It said that two of those arrested were also involved in the arson attack on an interior ministry vehicle. The Interfax news agency reported that the arson attack took place on December 22, 2024.