BISHKEK. July 17 (Interfax) - The terrorists eliminated in the Kyrgyz capital a day ago had been plotting a series of attacks, including at the Russian airbase in Kant, a spokesperson for the State National Security Committee (GKNB) told Interfax on Friday.
According to the security agency, a counter-terror operation was carried out on Thursday, July 16, to eliminate militants from Islamic State, an international terrorist organization. "It was established that this clandestine terror group was hatching and implementing plans to commit terror attacks on July 17, Orozo Ait Day, a holiday marking the end of the Muslim fast, in busy public places and at a Russian Defense Ministry airbase in the town of Kant in the Chui District in the north of the republic," the GKNB spokesperson said.