MOSCOW, Feb. 8 (Xinhua) -- Russia's Federal Security Service said Sunday that it had detained two suspects over an attempted assassination of a senior military official.
The suspects attempted to kill Lieutenant General Vladimir Alekseyev, a deputy chief of Russia's military intelligence agency, who was shot several times inside a residential building in northwest Moscow on Friday, the agency said in a statement.
It added that one suspect, believed to be the shooter, was detained in Dubai with assistance from partners in the United Arab Emirates and handed over to Russian authorities, while another was detained in Moscow.
A third suspect fled to Ukraine, the agency said, noting that all the suspects are Russian citizens. Enditem
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