Three detained confess to Minsk terrorist act

Investigators have proofs of guilt of three persons detained on suspicion of involvement in the terrorist attack in Minsk. All of them admit their guilt.

This statement was made by Belarusian Interior Minister Anatol Kulyashou in Minsk on Wednesday, Interfax-Zapad reports.

“Evidence of their guilt and involvement in the Minsk blast has been collected. Three persons admit their guilt,” Kulyashou said.

He also informed that “yesterday evening, officers of the main department on organized crime and officers of Almaz special subdivision detained three suspects involved in the blast”. According to the minister, the evidence collected by investigators shows that one of the suspects is involved in a Minsk blast on July 4, 2008, and blasts in September and October 2005 in Vitsebsk.

The Interior Minister did not say where the detainees live, but noted, “They are citizens of Belarus, but not residents of Minsk.”

Kulyashou added that cutting-edge technologies and latest achievement of science and technology were used to solve the crime.

According to Kulyashou, additional information is being collected and evidence is being systematized.