MOSCOW. Feb 13 (Interfax) - Followers of international terrorists with origins in Central Asia have been killed while being detained in Pskov following an attempt to blow up a railway terminal, the Federal Security Service (FSB) public relations center said on Thursday.
"The Russian Federal Security Service has put an end to the activity of a cell of an international terrorist organization (banned in Russia) in the Pskov region. Cell members, citizens of a Central Asian state, were plotting a terror attack on a regional transport infrastructure element," the FSB said.
Acting on the orders from a terrorist emissary stationed abroad, they wanted to blow up the Pskov railway terminal, it said.
"The terrorists put up armed resistance to FSB arresting officers and were shot and killed in a gunfire exchange," the FSB said.
The terrorist cell members prepared for the attack by reconnoitering area, buying components for an improvised bomb, and assembling it, the FSB said.
"After the terror attack, they planned to move abroad, to a Middle East country," it said.
The investigative department of the FSB branch in the Pskov region opened a criminal case on counts of terror attack conspiracy.
"Investigative procedures conducted at the radicals' places of residence resulted in the discovery and seizure of firearms, ammunition and improvised bomb components," the FSB said.