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Blast near Moscow restaurant kills security expert
An explosive device has gone off near a restaurant in downtown Moscow, killing a state security service expert who sought to disarm it. The Federal Security Service expert was killed when he triggered the handmade explosive device near the Imbir restaurant on Tverskaya-Yamskaya, Moscow's main thoroughfare, the police press service's deputy chief Kirill Mazurin said. According to police sources cited by the Interfax news agency, a woman tried to bring a rucksack with what appeared to be an explosive device into a restaurant on Tverskaya-Yamskaya, and fled when the restaurant's security attempted to search the rucksack. The woman was reportedly apprehended and the rucksack thrown out into the street, which the police had promptly cordoned off, sources added. Meanwhile, ambulances and police cars rushed to the scene, and people in surrounding houses were warned not to venture out, a witness at the scene said. Moscow has been on bomb alert since Saturday, when two women blew themselves up in a suicide attack at a Moscow rock concert, killing 14 people.
Posted by: Fred Pruitt 2003-07-10 |
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