RUSSIAN security forces have killed three people suspected of organising the suicide bombings in the Moscow metro after they resisted arrest, the head of the FSB security service said yesterday.

Russian security forces killed two women in a security operation in Chechnya and said the two had planned a suicide bombing, a top military official told a news agency today.

RUSSIAN security forces and police killed two militants and detained a third after the gunmen holed up in a house on the outskirts of the southern city of Nazran, police said yesterday. Two women and six children were wounded.

Russian security forces and police killed two militants and detained a third after the gunmen holed up in a house on the outskirts of the southern city of Nazran, police said today.

Russian security forces today seized a man who claimed he was armed with explosives and threatened to blow up his truck in front of the former KGB headquarters in Moscow.