Two police officers and another person have been killed in blast in southern Moscow, near where a general was killed recently by a car bomb Russia said was planted by Ukrainian intelligence, according to investigators.
The two traffic police officers were killed early on Wednesday in an explosion that occurred when they attempted to arrest a suspicious individual, the Russian Investigative Committee said.
“An explosive device was triggered” as the officers approached the suspect, who was near their service vehicle, according to the statement.
“Two police officers succumbed to their injuries,” the statement said, adding that the person standing next to them also died in the explosion.
An investigation for “attempted murder” of law enforcement officers and “explosives trafficking” has been opened, it added.
Reporting from Moscow, media’s Yulia Shapovalova said the blast occurred very early in the morning near a police station on Yeletskaya Street in southern Moscow, near the site where Russian General Fanil Sarvarov was killed earlier this week.
“These two young traffic police were just 24 and 25 years old,” she said, adding that the older of the victims had a wife and child. “It truly is a tragedy for their families.”
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