Police prevented on Sunday a large-scale terrorist attack on a gas distribution plant in Nalchik, the capital of Russia's North Caucasus republic of Kabardino-Balkaria, a police spokesman said.
"A cardboard box with three makeshift explosive devices - preliminarily with the total power of up to 5 kg of TNT equivalent - was discovered Sunday at a path leading to the Gazprom gas distribution plant on Severnaya Street," the spokesman said.
He said the devices, which contained electric detonators, portable radios, fuses, nails and screws, were defused on the site, no one was injured.
"According to experts, the planned terrorist attack was to be aimed against civilians," the spokesman said.
Sporadic terrorist attacks and militant clashes are common in Russia's volatile southern republics, where Russia has held two brutal wars against separatists in the region of Chechnya, although the Kremlin has officially ended its military campaign against separatists and terrorists there.
NALCHIK, June 6 (RIA Novosti)
