ST. PETERSBURG, April 7 (RAPSI, Mikhail Telekhov) – The Oktyabrsly District Court in St. Petersburg has ruled to place all eight suspects in abetting terrorism in detention until June 4, the United press service of St. Petersburg courts told RAPSI on Friday.

On Friday, the court ordered detention of Kyrgyzstan native Iskander Nurbayev. Seven other suspects were detained on Thursday.

Eight natives of several Central Asian republics were arrested after searches conducted by the police, Russian National Guard and Federal Security Service (FSB) on April 5 and April 6.

According to investigators, from November 2015 till present, they were recruiting new members of Jabhat al-Nusra and Islamic State (ISIS) terrorist organizations banned in Russia and other illegal militant groups for committing crimes of a terrorist nature. Recruits were predominantly natives of Central Asian republics.

Searches were conducted at the suspects’ places of residence; law enforcement officers seized extremist literature, documents and other items significant to the case.

Currently, investigators do not have information on their acquaintance with alleged St. Petersburg metro bombing suspect, Russia’s Investigative Committee said earlier.

On April 3, at around 2:40 PM Moscow time, an unknown device exploded in a train between St. Petersburg metro stations Technological Institute and Sennaya Ploshchad. According to the most recent information, 14 people died in the blast, over 50 were wounded. Investigators claim that the suicide bomber is the Kyrgyz Republic’s native Akbarzhon Dzhalilov, born in 1995.