Three people were killed and 21 injured after a bomb was detonated in an upscale restaurant in central Moscow on Saturday night, according to Russia’s National Anti-Terrorism Committee.
“An improvised explosive device exploded in a restaurant on Kudrinskaya Square at 7:55 p.m.,” the NAC said in a statement on its website. “The necessary operational search measures and investigative actions to establish all the circumstances of the incident are currently being carried out.”
The explosion killed a security guard who was attempting to prevent an unidentified woman suspected of trying to carry an explosive device into the Balzi Rossi Italian restaurant under the guise of delivering a box to guests, the woman herself, and a restaurant customer, according to the NAC.
The Kommersant newspaper reported that a case has been opened under the article of Russia’s Criminal Code “terrorist act.”
Authorities haven’t said who they believe was the intended victim. In recent years, several senior Russian military figures linked to the war in Ukraine have been targets of assassination plots in or near Moscow, with authorities accusing Ukraine of involvement in those attacks.
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