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Three people, including two police officers, were killed in an explosion in moscow On Wednesday, Russian investigators said, just days after a car bomb killed a high-ranking general.
Investigative Committee spokeswoman Svetlana Petrenko said in a statement that the two traffic police officers were approaching a “suspicious person” when an explosive device detonated. Both officers, as well as another bystander, died from their injuries.
Investigators and forensic experts are working at the scene, Petrenko said.
The incident took place in the same area of the Russian capital where Lieutenant General Fanil Sarvarov was assassinated by a car bomb on Monday morning.
Sarvarov, head of the Operational Training Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, died when an explosive device detonated under his vehicle in southern Moscow.
investigators said ukraine He may have been behind the attack, which was the third killing of a senior military officer in more than a year.