The head of the Federal Security Service said Tuesday that his agency had information that terrorists were planning attacks against water plants in southern Russia.

“Such a threat is absolutely realistic,” Interfax quoted FSB chief Nikolai Patrushev as saying at a meeting of the country’s National Anti-Terrorism Committee.

In recent years, Russia has suffered alleged sabotage of energy infrastructure including explosions on gas pipelines and electricity pylons in the turbulent Caucasus Mountains region of the south. The government has blamed Islamic militants for some of the attacks.
Patrushev said there were threats against the Volgograd reservoir and the Tsimlyanksy hydrosystem in the Rostov region and hydroelectric facilities in the Saratov and Dagestan regions, the RIA-Novosti news agency reported. He said that an attack against such facilities “could bring catastrophic consequences: the paralysis of vital activity of the entire region.”

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