Photo: FSB Public Relations Center
Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) said Monday that it had detained a German woman on suspicion of planning a terror attack on a police facility in the southern city of Pyatigorsk.
According to an FSB statement cited by Russian state media, the woman was carrying an explosive device toward the facility when she was apprehended. Law enforcement detected and deactivated the bomb using electronic warfare equipment, the agency said.
The FSB claimed the attack had been ordered by Ukrainian intelligence services and timed for early morning to maximise casualties among law enforcement personnel.
The suspect was reportedly born in 1969. A second suspect, a citizen of an unspecified Central Asian country, was also arrested in connection with the case. He had allegedly been tasked with remotely detonating the device.
Neither suspect has been named. The FSB said both have confessed.
