From Maxim Tkachenko, CNN
Police also detained two suspected accomplices in the January bombing at Moscow’s Domodedovo Airport.
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
- Two separate operations were conducted in the Ingushetia region
- Suspected accomplices in the January airport bombing were detained
- Three law enforcement personnel are killed in the raids
Moscow (CNN) — Seventeen militants were killed in two special operations conducted by law enforcement officials in the southern Russian region of Ingushetia, Nikolai Sintsov, spokesman for the Russian National Anti-Terrorist Committee, told CNN Monday.
Also, authorities detained two suspected accomplices in the January bombing at Moscow’s international Domodedovo Airport, he said.
The operations were a collaborative effort of Russia’s Investigative Committee, the Federal Security Service (FSB) and the Interior and Defense ministries.
They were launched as part of the ongoing investigation into the January 24 airport suicide bombing, Sintsov said. Thirty-seven people were killed and more than 100 were wounded in the bombing. The suicide bomber was identified as Magomed Yevloyev, 20, a resident of Ingushetia.
“As a result of a pinpoint airstrike of the Air Force, followed by a ground operation, a terrorist base which trained suicide bombers was eliminated,” Sintsov said.
Separately, Sintsov said, in one of the villages in Ingushetia, “an active accomplice of those bandits was eliminated, who was supplying them with food and medicine.”
“Unfortunately, two FSB servicemen and one police officer were killed in those raids,” he said.
Law enforcement officials were conducting on-site investigative and forensic examinations, he said.
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