Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) has detained in Moscow members of the so-called sleeper cell of the Daesh international terror group outlawed in Russia, who planned to carry out terrorist attacks in some crowded places, the FSB Public Relations Center said.

"After the investigative activities conducted in the Moscow region on September 30, 2017, the Federal Security Service has foiled the illegal activity of a clandestine cell of the ISIS international terror group," the FSB Public Relations Center said.

"It was established that the cell’s members planned to carry out some high-profile terror attacks in the form of blasts in some crowded places and transport infrastructure facilities," TASS cited the FSB as saying.

All members of the cell have been detained. "Two powerful ready-to-use improvised explosive devices have been found and seized in their apartments," the Public Relations Center said. In addition, FSB officers seized items for manufacturing explosive devices, two PM pistols, two RGD-5 grenades and communications equipment.

According to the FSB, the cell run by foreign emissaries "included Russian citizens from the North Caucasus region who are the proponents of the unification of all Muslims with a view to establishing the so-called worldwide Islamic caliphate," the Public Relations Center added.

Source: MENA