Three people, including two traffic police officers, were killed in an explosion in Moscow, days after a senior military officer died in a car bomb attack
Moscow: An explosion in the Russian capital Moscow on Wednesday killed three people, including two traffic police officers, according to Russia’s Investigative Committee.
Committee spokesperson Svetlana Petrenko said the officers were approaching a “suspicious individual” when an explosive device detonated. Both officers and another person standing nearby died from their injuries. Investigators and forensic experts were deployed to the scene following the blast.
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The incident occurred in the same area of southern Moscow where Lieutenant General Fanil Sarvarov was killed on Monday after an explosive device detonated under his vehicle. Sarvarov was the head of the Operational Training Directorate of the Russian Armed Forces’ General Staff.
Russian investigators have said Ukraine may have been behind the earlier car bomb attack that killed Sarvarov. That incident marked the third killing of a senior Russian military officer in just over a year, according to investigators.
Authorities have not yet confirmed whether the two explosions are directly linked, and investigations into the latest blast are ongoing.
Published: 24 Dec 2025, 02:51 pm IST
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