Russia busts Daesh cell preparing 'high-profile' attacks

MOSCOW - 15 October 2017: The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) has uncovered a "sleeper cell" linked to Daesh that was active both in Moscow and the North Caucasus region, Russia Today quoted the Russian National Anti-terrorist Committee as saying Saturday.

Four members of the cell were detained.

In Makhachkala, the capital of Russia's southern Republic of Dagestan, security forces also discovered two extremist hideouts, where they found three ready-to-use improvised explosive devices.

According to investigators, the members of the cell were plotting several potentially high-profile attacks in southern Russian regions, including explosions at public events as well as assaults on law enforcement officials and the military.