Putin Orders Agents to ‘Liquidate Bandits’ After Terror Attack
- Putin reacts after St. Petersburg supermarket bomb injured 10
- Attack follows series of plots linked to Islamic extremists
Firefighters and police officers work at the site of a blast in St. Petersburg on Dec. 27.
Photographer: Olga Maltseva/AFP via Getty Images
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Russian President Vladimir Putin vowed a crackdown after a supermarket bomb injured 10 people in St. Petersburg, the latest in a series of attacks linked to Islamic extremists that have targeted his home city.
Putin said Thursday that he’d ordered the head of the Federal Security Service, in case of a threat to officers’ lives, “to act decisively, not to take any prisoners, to liquidate bandits on the spot,” in remarks at a televised ceremony with veterans of Russia’s military campaign in Syria.