Terrorist attack against civilian aircraft prevented in Ingushetia
11:27, 16 May 2009
NAZRAN. May 16. KAZINFORM The risk of a terrorist attack against a civilian plane has been prevented in Ingushetia. Police operatives found an anti-missile air defense launcher Igla, planted inside a semi-finished building in a residential area of the Ordzhonikidzevskaya community, the Sunzha district, near Magas Airport, the Ingush Interior Ministry told Itar-Tass on Friday, Kazinform refers to ITAR-TASS.
A team of investigators examined the scene.
?Measures are being taken to track down and detain the criminals who had been planning to put the rocket launcher to use. Law enforcers suspect that those who had planted the Igla portable rocket launcher inside the building had been plotting to shoot down a civilian aircraft,? a police source said, Kazinform cites ITAR-TASS. See www.itar-tass.com for full version.