In Saint Petersburg, law enforcer wounded in special operation against militants from KBR

This morning, in Saint Petersburg, in a multi-storey apartment house No. 92, building 3, in Leninsky Avenue, law enforcers launched a special operation to detain militants from Northern Caucasus. This was reported by a FSB official. Eyewitnesses reported on shooting in the area of the security operation. It has been already reported on a wounded special forces fighter.

On behalf of the secret services of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), agents of the Saint Petersburg counterintelligence service have initiated the detention of persons on the federal wanted list on suspicion of involvement in illegal armed formations (IAFs), the "Fontanka" reports at 12:44 a.m. Moscow time with reference to the FSB Department for Saint Petersburg and the region.

According to the "Fontanka", the special operation is being carried out at the sixth entrance of the 16-storey residential building with 1180 apartments. Two explosions occurred there. Earlier, law enforcers brought into the entrance of the residential building a large number of sandbags.

The very residential building is cordoned off by fighters of the Russian Guard. An ambulance drove up to the building and took away a masked man in the uniform of special forces, the edition reports.

According to the eyewitnesses, about 80 FSB agents with bandages on their arms are involved in the special operation on the scene; meanwhile, local residents were not evacuated from the residential building, the "Rosbalt" reports.

Full text of the article is available on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’.