FSB identifies responsible for organizing anonymous bomb threats in Russia

The head of Russia's main security agency identified four Russian citizens suspected of organizing a wave of anonymous bomb threats that have prompted mass evacuations across the country.

Federal Security Service Director Aleksandr Bortnikov said that the four suspects are living abroad and that they have accomplices inside Russia. He didn’t give the identity of the suspects or describe the motives behind the hoax bomb threats.

The bomb threats have prompted evacuations of tens of thousands of people at schools, malls, theaters, universities, hotels, government buildings, and transport facilities since September 10. Bombs have not been discovered in any of the cases.

According to a source in Russia's emergency services, nearly 800,000 people were evacuated in 120 Russian cities through this period as over 1,900 buildings were allegedly "mined," but in no case, the threat of explosions had been confirmed, Sputnik reported.