MOSCOW, February 9. /TASS/. A terror attack at a railway station has been prevented in Russia’s southern Stavropol region, the National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC) said on Thursday.

"On February 8, in the course of an active search operation in the Stavropol region, Russia’s Federal Security Service agencies received information that armed bandits plotting a terror attack at a railway station were hiding in the village of Petrovsky in the Sovetsky municipality. The bandits were blocked in a house and offered to surrender. In response, they opened fire at law enforcement officers and were neutralized by retaliatory fire," it wrote on its official VKontakte page.

According to the NAC, people were evacuated from nearby houses to prevent possible casualties. No one was hurt.