'Islamist terror cell' with a hoard of bombs blow themselves up rather than surrender to Russian police

  • Russian police tracked down men believed to be Islamist terrorists
  • Group were hiding in a house in southwestern  Republic of Ingushetia
  • Four terror suspects refused to surrender and instead blew themselves up

By SARA MALM FOR MAILONLINE

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This is the moment a suspected Islamist terrorist cell opted to blow themselves up rather than surrender to police.  

Police had tracked the four extremists to a house in the village of Psedach in south western Russia's Republic of Ingushetia, where they ordered the men to surrender.

However, rather than give themselves up, the group opted to set of a bomb which destroyed their hideout, killing all four of them.

The gang of extremists had been being hunted by the Russian secret services in connection with the attempted murder of policemen, local news reports. 

Federal Security Service operatives surrounded their hideout, and the group began shooting at the officers, who returned fire.

Footage shows how the specialist troops began shooting at the property with rifles, machine guns and mortars.

Realising that the game was up, the militants then decided to blow themselves up rather than be captured.

Surrounded: Police tracked the four terror suspects to this  house in the village of Psedach in south western Russia's Republic of Ingushetia

Surrounded: Police tracked the four terror suspects to this  house in the village of Psedach in south western Russia's Republic of Ingushetia

No surrender: Rather than hand themselves over to the Russian security forces, the group detonated explosives, committing suicide

No surrender: Rather than hand themselves over to the Russian security forces, the group detonated explosives, committing suicide

All gone: Video from the incident shows the explosion and the ruins left behind

All gone: Video from the incident shows the explosion and the ruins left behind

A video shows how the huge explosion from their suicide bombs ripped the roof off the little cottage.

No one else was injured in the blast, which was captured in footage taken by Russian national anti-terrorism committee.

An unnamed Federal Security Service source said: 'They were given an opportunity to give themselves up and to stay alive.

'They blew themselves up, committing suicide - which is forbidden in Islam.'

Arsenal: Ipon raiding the ruins of the cottage, police found a number of weapons

Arsenal: Ipon raiding the ruins of the cottage, police found a number of weapons

Proof: Federal Security Service operatives also found what appears to be a template or a flag

Proof: Federal Security Service operatives also found what appears to be a template or a flag

The four dead men were believed to be members of an Islamist terrorist group

The four dead men were believed to be members of an Islamist terrorist group

The terrorists were believed to be members of the Khunzakh militant group.

Two of them, Bekhan Soltukiev, 34 and Mikhail Cherbizhev, 31 were wanted for a series of attacks on police officers.

The special services identified the third man who died in the blast as Khasan Khatsiev.

They have yet to release the identity of the fourth man killed in the explosion, which completely destroyed the building. 

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