Terror suspects detained in Russia's Tatarstan had explosives

Kazan, 19 November: Four members of an international terrorist organization who were attempting to distribute leaflets of an extremist nature have been detained in Almetyevsk, the press centre of the Tatarstan Interior Ministry announced today.

Those detained, who are of Central Asian origin, are members of the terrorist organization, Hizb ut-Tahrir (Islamic Liberation Party). A search of their flats revealed explosives and explosive devices, something that "allows one to say that they were preparing a terrorist act", a press centre spokesman said.

The prosecutor's office has instituted a criminal case under the article dealing with "instigation of national, racial and religious enmity".

According to the Federal Security Service Directorate for Tatarstan, more than 20 militants and one of the ringleaders of the terrorist organization, which operated in Kazan, Naberezhnyye Chelny, Almetyevsk and Yelabuga, have been detained in recent days.

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