SAEDNEWS: Two traffic police officers and a third person have been killed in a car explosion in Moscow, Russia’s Investigative Committee, which probes major crimes, said early on Wednesday.
The committee said in a statement that “an explosive device was triggered” when officers approached a “suspicious person” near their police vehicle on Yeletskaya Street in the south of Moscow, The Guardian reported.
Officials added that a crime scene has been established and CCTV footage is being reviewed.
Russian television broadcast images showing a cordoned-off area with a large police presence. Witnesses described an explosion occurring around 1:30 a.m. local time.
Earlier this week, a senior Russian general, Lt. Gen. Fanil Sarvarov, was killed when a bomb detonated under his car in southern Moscow, according to Russian investigators. They described the death of the head of the operational training directorate of the Russian military’s general staff as a likely assassination carried out by Ukrainian intelligence services. Sarvarov’s car exploded while driving along Yaseneva Street at approximately 7:00 a.m. on Monday.
