The bomb injures 3 Russian security officers; dead attacker

MOSCOW – A man threw a bomb on Wednesday at the entrance to the local branch of the main Russian intelligence service in a northern city, wounding three security agents and killing himself, officials said. authorities.

The man entered the local branch of the FSB intelligence agency in Akhangelsk and removed the improvised explosive device from a bag, blowing it up, the National Counter-Terrorism Committee announced.

The explosion killed the man and injured three officers of the FSB. It was not clear right away if the man had wanted to leave the bomb or he was also planning to die.

Russian investigators subsequently identified the attacker as a 17-year-old man and said that they treated the attack as an act of terrorism.

Akhangelsk Governor Igor Orlov had already reported one death but did not say he was the attacker. Authorities cordoned off the area around the CSF office and tightened security measures in all public offices in the city.

The FSB and other security agencies have already been targeted in another region, the North Caucasus, mainly by Islamist insurgents.

An ambulance carries a wounded after an explosion to the entrance of an FSB office in Akhangelsk, northern Russia on Wednesday, October 31, 2018. The local governor said that one person had was killed and three injured after the explosion of a bomb. at the entrance of the local branch of the main Russian intelligence service. (Maria Vavilina / Associated Press)