410 people die in terrorist acts in Russia in 2010 -- NAC

MOSCOW, March 10 (Itar-Tass) -- Four hundred and ten people died as a
result of terrorist acts in Russia in 2010, deputy chief of staff of the National Anti-terrorist Committee (NAC), Major-General Yevgeny Potapov said.
"We can say that on the whole the overall number of terrorist crimes
is going down. While there were 1,030 of them in 2009, we registered 779 last year. The situation has stabilised to some extent, and the number of such crimes decreased twofold in the Chechen Republic and the Republic of Ingushetia," he said.
At the same time, 410 people died as result of 21 sorties, which were
classified as terrorist acts, and 14 bombing acts carried out by suicide bombers. The terrorists targeted children, elderly people, women, law enforcers, public figures, clerics, and businessmen.
Those killed include 119 civilians, 268 military personnel and law
enforcers, 13 government officials, 10 public figures and clerics, the
general said in an interview with Rossiiskaya Gazeta to be published on Thursday, March 10.
Potapov said practically all high-profile terrorist acts carried out
in Russia last year had been solved.
In 2010, security forces found and destroyed 433 bases and arms cashes
made by the militants, seized 454 homemade explosive devices, 1,263
firearms and more than 2.5 tonnes of explosives.
As a result of preventive work, 60 militants turned themselves in to
police, and 93 terrorist acts were averted.
Sixty-eight counter-terrorist operations and more than 7,000
operational and combat events were carried out in 2010, and 375 gunmen
were destroyed for putting up armed resistance to security forces.