19 Jul 2012 21:49

Major terrorist act prevented in Dagestan

MAKHACHKALA. July 19 (Interfax) - Bomb disposal agents have defused a mined tanker truck in the Buynaksk district of Dagestan.

The truck was being filled with liquid gas at a local gas station when police arrived.

"At 4:40 p.m. Moscow Time on Thursday, police received information that the above tanker trunk had been mined. The truck was driven to a field where a bomb attached to its bottom was defused by FSB [Federal Security Service] agents," a source in the Dagestani Interior Ministry has told Interfax.'

According to preliminary estimates, the bomb was equivalent to 1.5 kg of trotyl.