MOSCOW. Oct 22 (Interfax) - The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) has said that it has detained a man from Central Asia who was planning a terrorist attack using an improvised bomb in the Moscow area.
"The Russian Federal Security Service has prevented a terrorist attack in the Moscow metropolitan area. A man coming from the Central Asian region, born in 1999, has been detained as a result of operational procedures," the FSB said on Thursday.
The suspect was acting on orders from militants of international terrorist organizations and was plotting a terrorist attack in a government building using an improvised explosive device, it said.
"The offender planned later to travel to the combat zone in the Middle East to join the activities of terrorist groups," the FSB said.
Security operatives have found components of an improvised explosive device in a cache made by the man, and his telephone contained correspondence with militants to discuss the planned attack, online manuals on manufacturing explosives, and a video of a so-called pledge of allegiance to terrorist leaders, it said.
"Search and investigative operations are currently being conducted as part of the criminal case that has been opened," it said.