Four suspected terrorists plotting attacks in Azerbaijan have been killed, while another one has been detained in Baku, the State Security Service of the Republic of Azerbaijan said Wednesday, February 1, Sputnik reports.

The Security Service said the four suspected armed militants put up an armed resistance, noting that they "were planning attacks in the country."

"The [four] citizens of the republic have been eliminated in the course of a January 31 raid in Azerbaijan, launched to detain those suspected of particularly serious crimes," the service's press office said.

It provided the four suspects' last names alongside their noms de guerre and added that one of them, F. Sadykhov known as Abdulkhalid, has been detained.