Moscow restaurant bombing kills three people as device carried by woman explodes
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A homemade bomb carried by a woman killed three people and injured at least 21 in an explosion near a restaurant in central Moscow on Saturday evening, authorities said
The explosion occurred just before 8pm close to an Italian restaurant located in one of Moscow’s seven Stalin-era skyscrapers at Kudrinskaya Square, the police said
Russia’s anti-terrorism committee said an unidentified woman had tried to get into the restaurant but was stopped by a security guard, the state RIA news agency reported
It said the woman, the security guard and a customer at the Balzi Rossi Italian restaurant were killed in the blast that followed
Those injured received wounds of varying seriousness, the police said. Russia’s state RIA news agency released video of heavily armed law enforcement officers at the scene, which had been closed off to the public
The authorities did not name those killed or injured nor did they say who they thought might have been responsible
The Kommersant daily newspaper cited its own ll guests on the restaurant’s summer terrace outside
It suggested the bomb had been set off by someone else remotely and that the woman carrying it may not have known it was a bomb
The restaurant’s website said the venue had been closed on Saturday for a private event
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