MOSCOW, Feb. 13 (Xinhua) -- Russia has foiled a terrorist attack on a railway station in the country's Pskov region, the Federal Security Service (FSB) said in a statement Thursday.

The FSB said it dismantled a cell belonging to an international terrorist organization banned in Russia, whose members from a Central Asian country were planning to commit a terrorist attack on a transport infrastructure facility in the Pskov region.

The members received instructions from an emissary of the organization abroad and were plotting to blow up the building of the railway station in Pskov.

They carried out reconnaissance, acquired components to build an improvised explosive device, and began assembling it, the FSB said, adding that they planned to flee to a Middle Eastern country after conducting the terror attack.

"When detained, the terrorists made armed resistance to the FSB officers and were eventually neutralized by return fire," it said. Enditem

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