{"id":5384,"date":"2018-10-31T19:04:09","date_gmt":"2018-10-31T15:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/?p=5384"},"modified":"2018-10-31T19:04:09","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T15:04:09","slug":"teen-blows-himself-up-at-russia-security-hq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/2018\/10\/31\/teen-blows-himself-up-at-russia-security-hq\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen blows himself up at Russia security HQ"},"content":{"rendered":"

A 17-year-old has died of his wounds after detonating explosives in an office of Russia’s FSB federal security service in the north-western city of Arkhangelsk, officials say.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Three FSB employees were hurt when the explosives went off just inside the building at around 09:00 (06:00 GMT).<\/p>\n

The blast caused serious damage.<\/p>\n

A CCTV image of the suspect emerged soon afterwards, along with a message he allegedly posted on social media just before the blast.<\/p>\n

Although the authenticity of the message posted on an anarchist chat group has not been confirmed, the user identifies himself as an anarcho-communist and claims the FSB “fabricates cases and tortures people”.<\/p>\n

Russia’s anti-terrorism committee said, according to initial findings, the suspect was a 17-year-old local resident who had gone into the building and pulled out of his bag an “unidentified object that exploded in his hands”.<\/p>\n

He was later named as Mikhail Zhlobitsky, a student at a local technical college. His grandmother told BBC Russian that she could not understand why he had blown himself up.<\/p>\n

“He doesn’t drink or smoke, and he doesn’t swear. He doesn’t play truant – he always attends college. I’ve no idea what happened,” she said.<\/p>\n

The blast was described as a terrorist attack. Governor Igor Orlov said local authorities in Arkhangelsk, around 1,200km (750 miles) north of Moscow, had taken measures to heighten security in all public buildings.<\/p>\n

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Attacks on security services are unusual in Russia, although police have been targeted in parts of the Caucasus, including Chechnya and Dagestan.<\/p>\n

The FSB has been behind two controversial cases this year, against groups accused of plotting violent uprisings, the BBC’s Sarah Rainsford reports from Moscow.<\/p>\n

In both, human rights groups argued the claims were false, while they said statements in one case were extracted under torture.<\/p>\n

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BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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