Islamic terrorism in Russia

Monday is a day of mourning in Russia in honour of the victims of the crash of a Russian military plane TU-154 in the Black Sea.

Three people died while 18 more were injured on Monday when a bomb placed inside a car was detonated in the Dagestan Republic, southern Russia.

RT is reporting that the incident happened near a police checkpoint in the town of Derbent.

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) said its suicide bomber had blown up a car in Russia's volatile Dagestan that killed two policemen on Feb. 15, the deadliest attack in the southern republic since 2013.

Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) has detained seven suspected members of the Islamic State group who allegedly planned terrorist attacks in Moscow, St. Petersburg and the Urals.

The group, arrested in Yekaterinburg, comprised citizens of Russia and countries of Central Asia and was led by one of its members who had  arrived from Turkey, FSB said in a statement on Monday.

Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) on Monday said they arrested seven Islamic State members who planned to carry out terrorist attacks.

According to RT, the leader of the group that intended to stage attacks in Moscow, St. Petersburg, and the Sverdlovsk region "came from Turkey."

The hostage siege, which took place in the northern French town of Roubaix near the border with Belgium on Tuesday, ended with one of the gunman reportedly killed.

Their is no information on the exact number of hostages, but all of them are now safe and in secure place, the BBC reports.

The Russian passenger plane that crashed in Egypt last month was destroyed by terrorists, Federal Security Service (FSB) Director Aleksandr Bortnikov has said.

RT is reporting that Bortnikov informed Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday that "traces of explosives have been found in the wreckage of the plane."

At least five people are feared dead after the Admiral shopping center in Kazan, South-Western Russia, went ablaze on Wednesday.

All the victims reported so far are citizens of Tajikistan.

Fifty-five have been injured, Russia's ITAR-TASS agency reports.

Over 650 people have been evacuated or rescued, but authorities say there are still people inside.

The armed man, who took hostages at a post office in the French town of Colombes, has surrendered to the police with no casualties suffered.

The abductor, who was in the possession of military weapons, took at least two hostages at the post office of Colombes, north-west of Paris, the Guardian reports.

An armed man who earlier took several hostages at a post office northwest of Paris on Friday has surrendered with no one hurt, a French police official told Reuters.
   
The man equipped with a military weapon took an unconfirmed number of hostages at the post office in the town of Colombes, just outside the capital.