TEHRAN, Aug. 22 (MNA) – News sources on Monday reported that the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) has detained a suicide bomber, a member of the ISIL terrorist organization.

The detained terrorist was plotting a terrorist attack against a member of India's leadership elite, Sputnik reported.

Russia's FSB identified and detained a member of the ISIL terrorist organization banned in Russia, a native of a country in the Central Asian region, who planned to commit a terrorist act by blowing himself up against one of the representatives of the ruling circles of India, the authority said in a statement.

In April-June, the detainee was recruited by one of the ISIL leaders as a suicide bomber in Turkey, the statement added.

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