Syria main source of recent bomb hoaxes in Russia

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Tue, 12 Dec 2017 - 05:09 GMT

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Interior Ministry officers patrol the city centre, with Red Square and the Kremlin wall seen in the background, in Moscow, Russia September 13, 2017. REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin

Interior Ministry officers patrol the city centre, with Red Square and the Kremlin wall seen in the background, in Moscow, Russia September 13, 2017. REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin

MOSCOW - 12 December 2017: The wave of bomb hoax calls in Russia that began in September and sparked numerous evacuations, inflicting multibillion-ruble damages, originated from terrorist-controlled territories in Syria, Russia’s deputy interior minister Igor Zubov, quoted by Russia Today, has said.

“The main part of these calls was made from the places in Syria with a high concentration of terrorists,” Zubov said. “Judging from their intensity, we can say that this was a cyberattack on the territory of the Russian Federation,” he added.

The deputy minister said that “telephone terrorists” also made calls from Turkey, Ukraine, the United States, Canada, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. He told reporters that the combined damages from the “cyberattacks” amounted to several billion rubles.

In recent months, Russia has been hit by a wave of bomb hoax calls. They began on September 11 and have caused the evacuation of over 2.3 million people from various buildings in 186 towns and cities.

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