Russia says 2 Daesh supporters killed in Siberian city
Two supporters of Daesh terrorist group have been
killed in a shootout with security forces in a Siberian city, Radio Free Europe
quoted the National Anti-Terrorism Committee as saying on Saturday.
The Federal Security Service agents received
information on April 12 about two armed people who were planning a terrorist
attack in Tyumen.
The committee said the two refused orders to
surrender, began shooting at the officers, and were killed by return fire.
Local media in Tyumen, about 2,500 kilometers east of
Moscow, published photographs and a video showing a sizable number of heavily
armed law enforcement agents and vehicles in various parts of the city late on
April 12.
The committee gave no further details about the
alleged plot, or the plotters and there was no way to independently verify the
statement.
