Russian law enforcers kill 3 suspected terrorists

Three suspected terrorists were killed in Russia's Kabardino-Balkarian Republic in North Caucasus, the country's anti-terrorism body said Monday.

Russian National Anti-Terrorism Committee said in a statement that law enforcers blocked the three suspects in the Baksan district after receiving information about a planned terrorist attack.

The suspects opened fire and were later neutralized, the statement said.

At the site of the shootout, automatic weapons, traumatic pistols, ammunition and an improvised explosive device were found, it said.

Two ready-to-use improvised explosive devices were discovered during a search at the residence of one of the suspects, the statement said.

There were no casualties among the law enforcers.

Meanwhile, the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) said Monday it has detained two students on suspicion of planning an armed attack on an educational institution in the far eastern Sakhalin Region.

The detainees, born in 2002 and 2003 respectively, are also suspected of being "involved in propaganda of terrorism, mass killings and suicide on the Internet," the FSB said in a statement.

During searches, the FSB seized a sawn-off shotgun with ammunition, an industrially-made detonator, as well as improvised explosive devices, explosives, communications equipment and personal diaries containing information about a planned armed attack on an educational institution, it said.

A criminal case was instituted against the detainees to answer public calls for combating terrorist activities, the statement added.