BAKU, Azerbaijan — Azerbaijan's National Security Ministry said it has detained eight people, including a Chechen man, on suspicion of planning "terrorist acts" against a school and kindergarten in Baku.
Police had arrested eight members of an "organized criminal group, crossing illegally from Georgia into Azerbaijan with the aim of carrying out terrorist acts," the ministry said in a statement. It said seven were Azeris, including three women, and the eighth was from Chechnya.
It said the group had earlier concealed weapons and ammunition in the roof of a kindergarten and a school in Baku and planned to attack both. The suspected ringleader is still at large, it added.
(Reuters)
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