FSB foils militant attacks in southern Russia, RIA reports

Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Saturday it had thwarted a series of planned militant attacks in the southern region of Dagestan, state news agency RIA reported. FSB said it had arrested three Russian citizens in the city of Kaspiysk and identified them as members of an international terrorist organization, but did not name it. It said investigators had seized homemade explosive devices and other weapons.