DUSHANBE, September 6. /TASS/. Three terrorists, who violated the Tajik-Afghan border last week, have been killed by Tajik special services, Tajikistan’s State National Security Committee said on Wednesday.

"In the early hours of August 30, three members of an international terrorist organization illegally crossed the Tajik-Afghan border <…> plotting to stage a terrorist attack on the territory of the Republic of Tajikistan in the run-up to Independence Day celebrations," the country’s national news agency Khovar said.

"The three members of the terrorist group were killed in an anti-terror operation," the agency reported.

According to the report, a special forces’ unit tracked the group’s movements. The militants were surrounded and killed on September 5. An investigation revealed that all of them were members of the Jamaat Ansarullah group (outlawed in Russia) and were wanted in Tajikistan on charges of participating in armed conflicts on the territory of third countries.

Apart from weapons, which the men carried with them, the group smuggled a large batch of weapons and explosives from Afghanistan beforehand and hid them in caches.