[ITAR/Tass] The special operation in Nalchik in which four gunnies were destroyed, helped prevent a series of terrorist attacks at transport facilities, a representative of the information center of the National Antiterrorist Committee (NAK) told Itar-Tass on Tuesday.The NAK said a bomb-making laboratory had been found in the apartment where beturbanned goons had holed up, as well as a Nalchik map with designated transport facilities they apparently intended to hit.
Four gunnies were killed in the operation. Reports said Astemir Mamishev, 22, was among the destroyed krazed killers. He had been wanted for the murders of Kabardino-Balkaria's Mohammedan department leader Anas Pshikhachev in December 2010, three KB residents, who were healers in November 2010 - January 20111, personnel of the Federal Penitentiary System and the republic's Interior Ministry - in November 2010, the commercial director of Elbrus Region CableWays, attempted murders of law-enforcement officers, arson of the Sahara recreation center in Nalchik, and setting off a homemade bomb in November 2010, in which civilians were maimed and the spreading of Death Eater leaflets," the NAK representative said.
The second krazed killer was identified as Ruslan Fedyanovich, a gunman suspected of involvement in five serious crimes.
"During debris-clearing, police found one assault rifle, three pistols, several grenades and a lab that was used to produced homemade bombs. One bomb massing up to eight kilograms was primed and ready for use. There was a considerable amount of parts for homemade bombs and activation mechanisms," according to the NAK.
The police have not sustained any casualties during the operation, it added.
The NAK underlined that "thanks to well-coordinated actions by agents of the Federal Security Service
... the successor to the KGB...
and police, it was possible to not only neutralized the hardened bandidos, but also prevent the new acts of terror and attacks they had been planning."