BISHKEK -- Kyrgyzstan said Tuesday (August 29) that two militants were killed and one was injured in a shootout with police who also claimed to have foiled a terror plot in the Central Asian country.
Kyrgyzstan's State National Security Service (GKNB) claimed its officers killed two members of "an armed terrorist group" that had planned attacks ahead of the former Soviet republic's independence day (Thursday, August 31).
One accomplice of the pair was hospitalised in the clash, while another suspected plotter had been detained the day before, the GKNB said in a statement.
The same group had threatened traffic police with a pistol and a grenade after being pulled over for a routine inspection last week before driving off, the GKNB said.
In photos released by the security service, two corpses appear to be lying in a field along with a knife and a firearm.
The GKNB said the group was planning attacks in the capital Bishkek and surrounding region using "homemade explosives" during the independence holiday.
