BISHKEK. April 17 (Interfax) - Kyrgyzstan is keeping an eye on the investigation being carried out by Russian law enforcement agencies into the St. Petersburg metro bombing and the detentions of suspected accomplices to the perpetrator of the terror attack, a source with Kyrgyz law enforcement agencies told Interfax.
"The situation is being followed, including the detentions made," the source said on Monday.
"The relevant Kyrgyz structures are keeping in close touch with their counterparts from Russia, who are investigating a terror attack in the St. Petersburg metro system on April 3, of which a suspected perpetrator is a Kyrgyz native, Russian citizen Akbarzhon Dzhalilov," Kyrgyz Deputy Prime Minister for Security Zhenish Razakov told Interfax earlier.
The Russian Federal Security Service public relations center said on Monday that one of the suspected plotters of a terror attack staged in the St. Petersburg metro system, native from Central Asia, Abror Azimov, born in 1990, had been detained, but the citizenship of the suspected plotter of the terrorist act has not been revealed. He has trained the suicide bomber, according to the FSB.