Explosives found in an illegal
Muslim prayer hall near the Russian city of Samara was eliminated right inside
the building.
Bomb disposal team deemed it too dangerous to take the explosives
out.
The video of the controlled
explosion shows a considerable part of the building being destroyed in the
blast.
A police dog helped to find a cache with more than a
kilogram of explosives of unknown origin. A bomb-disposal expert said
extracting the explosives would be definitely unsafe and bomb technicians
rolled in a water cannon, a source within Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB)
told RT.
The federal highway M5 passing right in front of the
house was blocked in both directions and people were evacuated from all nearby
buildings.
The house was used for gatherings of Salafis,
followers of an ultra-conservative movement within Sunni Islam, and it was not
registered with the regional Muslim community as an official house of worship.
Inside the house, the FSB’s Special Forces detained 53
young men, at least one of whom was promoting the Islamic State terror group
online.
According to an FSB source, the arrests made at the
illegal prayer hall triggered a series of house raids, which helped uncover
more explosives, handguns, grenades and ammo.
The same source said other known members of that
particular Salafi community are currently fighting in Syria for the jihadists.
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