Moscow blast kills 2 police near site of Russian general’s car bombing
Moscow hit by second bombing in three days, following a series of assassinations Russia blames on Ukraine
Three people were killed by a bomb in Moscow on Wednesday after two police officers approached a man acting suspiciously near the site where a senior general was killed two days ago by a car bomb that Russia said was planted by Ukrainian intelligence.
A string of Russian military figures and high-profile supporters of the war in Ukraine have been assassinated during the nearly four-year-old conflict. Ukrainian military intelligence has said it was responsible for a number of the attacks.
Russia’s State Investigative Committee said that when two police officers approached a man who was acting strangely, they were killed by an explosive device, adding that a third person was also killed. It did not specify who the third person was.
It said it opened criminal cases under clauses dealing with the murder of law enforcement officers and the illegal trafficking of bombs.
“There was an explosion,” Alexander, a resident who lives nearby, told Reuters television. “It was a loud bang – like with the car a few days ago.”