Russian forces kill women who planned suicide attack

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.

Security forces killed the women during a raid in the village of Sernovodsk on Thursday, acting on information obtained from two suspects who were detained when an explosives-laden vehicle was discovered, Major General Ilya Shabalkin, spokesman for the federal forces in the North Caucasus region, was quoted as saying by the Interfax news agency.