In brief
Three individuals, including two officers identified as Ilya Klimanov and Maxim Gorbunov, lost their lives in an explosion on Yeletskaya Street in Moscow. This incident follows a recent car bombing that killed a senior Russian general, raising suspicions of possible links between the two events. Russian authorities are investigating this explosion as an attempt on law enforcement personnel.
Three people - including two police officers - have been killed in an explosion in Moscow, Russian authorities have said.
Two traffic police officers saw a suspicious individual near a police car on the city's Yeletskaya Street, and when they approached the suspect to detain him, an explosive device was detonated, Russia's Investigative Committee has said.
The two police officers died from their injuries, along with another individual who was standing nearby.
The blast took place close to the location where a senior Russian general was killed in a car bombing in the capital on Monday.
Lt Gen Fanil Sarvarov died after an explosive device - which had been planted under a car - was detonated.
Investigate Committee spokesperson Svetlana Petrenko said in a statement on Telegram that a criminal case was being investigated in Moscow regarding an attempt on the lives of traffic police officers.
The officers have been named by Russian media as Ilya Klimanov, 24, and Maxim Gorbunov, 25.
Speaking to the Reuters news agency, Alexander, a resident who lives close by, said: There was an explosion. It was a loud bang - like with the car a few days ago.
Russia said it suspected Ukraine was behind Monday's explosion; however, Ukraine has not said whether it was involved in Fanil Sarvarov's death. It is also not known whether the two explosions are linked.
Sarvarov, 56, was the head of the armed forces' operational training department and was the third military official to have been killed in bomb attacks in the Russian capital over the last year.
