A homemade bomb carried by a woman killed three people and injured at least 21 in an explosion near an upscale restaurant in central Moscow yesterday, the authorities said.
The explosion occurred just before 8pm local time close to an upscale Italian restaurant located in one of Moscow’s seven Stalin-era skyscrapers at Kudrinkskaya Square, the police said.
Russia’s Anti-Terrorism Committee said that an unidentified woman had tried to get into the restaurant but was stopped by a security guard, the state RIA news agency reported.
It said the woman, the security guard and a customer at the Balzi Rossi Italian restaurant had been killed in the blast that followed.
RIA news agency released video of heavily armed law enforcement officers at the scene, which had been closed off to the public.
The authorities did not name those killed or injured nor did they say who they thought might have been responsible.
Russia’s FSB security service said earlier this year that authorities would step up protection for high-ranking military officials after a series of assassinations and attempted killings it blamed on Ukraine.
Russian forces carried out strikes on fuel storage tanks in the Ukrainian port of Odesa and hit a marine tugboat repurposed for use by the Ukrainian army in the port of Mykolaiv, the Interfax news agency reported yesterday, citing the defence ministry.
Reuters could not independently verify the battlefield reports.
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