MOSCOW, May 13 (UPI) -- Russian security forces killed three members of a group suspected in the March 29 bombing of the Moscow transit system, authorities said Thursday.
"Unfortunately, we did not manage to detain them alive. They offered fierce armed resistance and were eliminated," Federal Security Service chief Alexander Bortnikov said at a meeting with President Dmitry Medvedev.
Bortnikov said the three suspects had accompanied suicide bombers to Moscow on the day of the attack, which killed 40 people and injured more than 100.
"Those (terrorists) who offer resistance should be eliminated, have no pity," Medvedev said.
Bortnikov and Medvedev did not say when, where or how the three suspects were killed and did not publicly identify them.
The transit system attacks may have been revenge for a recent Russian military operation in the North Caucasus region of Chechnya that killed more than 20 Islamic militants, RIA Novosti reported.
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