CIA ‘helped stop Russia terror attack’

CIA ‘helped stop Russia terror attack’

Information provided by the CIA helped Russian security services foil an attack on a St Petersburg cathedral, Russian media reports say.
The attack was allegedly planned to take place on Saturday, officials say.
In a phone call, Russian President Vladimir Putin thanked Donald Trump for the CIA’s intervention, the Kremlin was quoted as saying.
Mr Putin promised to alert US officials if it received any similar intelligence relating to the US, Interfax reported.
Russia’s FSB security service said in a statement on Friday that it had detained seven members of a cell of Islamic State supporters and seized a significant amount of explosives, weapons and extremist literature.
The cell was planning to carry out a suicide attack at a religious institution and kill citizens on Saturday, the FSB statement said (in Russian).
The group was preparing to blow up the Kazan Cathedral and other crowded places in Russia’s second city, Interfax quoted the Kremlin as saying.
Courtesy : BBC