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Moscow, July 22 (Interfax) - Special services have detained a laser attacker in Moscow, who pointed laser beams at aircrews near the Vnukovo Airport.

"The Federal Security Service has carried out a combined search operation jointly with police, tracking down Alexander Kuleznyov, born in 1987, who had used a laser to blind aircrews repeatedly from near the Vnukovo Airport," the FSB’s Public Relations Center informed Interfax on Friday.

Two laser pointers were discovered at Kuleznyov’s apartment on July 21. One of them produces a beam with a range of up to 40 kilometers, the FSB said.