KIEV, March 22 (Xinhua) -- The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) said on Friday it has prevented a terror attack in a metro station in Ukraine's eastern city of Kharkiv and detained the individual suspected of plotting the attack.
According to a statement on the SBU website, the suspect planned to plant an explosive device stuffed with striking elements equivalent to 600 grams of TNT inside the "Industrialna" metro station.
The plotted attack was aimed at causing "numerous human casualties and destabilizing the socio-political situation in the country on the eve of the presidential elections," the SBU said.
The presidential elections in Ukraine are scheduled for March 31.
In February 2015, four people were killed and nine others wounded in Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-largest city, when an explosive device was thrown from a moving car into a crowd attending a peaceful march. The SBU has classified the incident as a terror act.
