MOSCOW, Feb 19 (NNN-TASS) – The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB), said Tuesday that, it detained two teenagers in the Crimean city of Kerch, suspected of plotting explosions in schools.
The FSB said that, it prevented the preparations for terrorist acts in two educational institutions by two Kerch residents, born in 2003 and 2004, respectively.
The two suspects are followers of 18-year-old Vladislav Roslyakov, a student who detonated a homemade bomb in the building of the Kerch Polytechnic College, in Oct, 2018, killing 20 people.
Homemade explosive devices and their components were seized from the detainees, who tested them on pets.
It said, since 2018, the FSB had identified about 150 large youth extremist online communities, with about 50,000 internet users.– NNN-TASS