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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia’s Federal Security Service said on Friday that a gunman had burst into one of its regional offices in the far east of the country and opened fire, killing one of its employees and a visitor. The FSB, the successor organization to the Soviet KGB, said the attacker had been killed and that another person had been injured in the incident. The assailant was shot dead, the FSB said, adding: “There is information about his belonging to a neo-Nazi group.” The Amaq report came one day after the Islamic State group claimed an attack in Paris that left a policeman dead and two other officers wounded. The FSB said the gunman was a local resident, born in 1999, who belonged to an unnamed nationalist group, the TASS news agency reported, citing an FSB official. One Russian news agency had quoted a FSB spokesman as saying: ”Some information points to his being a member of a neo-Nazi group.” The visitor who was killed and the one who was injured were from former Soviet states outside Russia, according to the security service. The country has been on heightened alert since an alleged suicide bomb attack on the metro in the second city of Saint Petersburg on April 3 left 15 people dead.
Two people are killed in an attack in a Federal Security Service office in the Russian city of Khabarovsk. The gunman is also killed. The US-Israeli SITE Intelligence Group says Amaq News Agency claims the attack for Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. The Russian Federal Security Service says the native 18-year-old perpetrator was a known member of a neo-nazi group.