MOSCOW, March 29. /TASS/. Three nationals of Central Asian countries, who plotted a terror attack in a crowded place, have been detained in Russia’s southern Stavropol Region, a spokesman for the Federal Security Service (FSB) told TASS.

"The Federal Security Service has suppressed terrorist activities of three citizens of a Central Asian country, who were plotting a terror attack by means of staging an explosion in a crowded place in the Stavropol Region," he said, adding that parts of a makeshift explosive device, chemical agents and shrapnel elements have been seized at their place of living.

A criminal case was opened on charges of preparing a terrorist act (part1, article 30 and part 2, article 205 of the Russian Criminal Code).