MOSCOW. Dec 25 (Interfax) - The Federal Security Service (FSB) has detained a 17-year-old teen on suspicion of plotting an explosion in Tambov, the FSB public relations center said in a statement seen by Interfax on Friday.
"The Federal Security Service has averted a terror attack in Tambov. The preventive measures resulted in the detention of a Russian citizen born in 2003, who was involved in preparations for the crime," the statement said.
"Explosives, components of an improvised explosive device, and communication devices containing online manuals on the bomb assembly and use were seized from" the apartment rented by the suspect, the FSB said.
"The Russian Investigative Committee's investigative department in the Tambov region opened a criminal case against the suspect under Part 1 Article 30, and Part 1 Article 205 of the Russian Criminal Code (preparations for a terror attack). A measure of restraint is pending," the FSB said.
For its part, the Russian Investigative Committee press service told Interfax that the detainee, a college student, was "a follower of destructive subcultures preparing to commit a terror attack in a Tambov building."
"He was planning to use an improvised explosive device, the instructions on whose production he obtained from the Internet, as a weapon of his crime," the agency said.