{"id":4545,"date":"2025-12-24T07:40:22","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T07:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2025\/12\/24\/three-people-killed-in-explosion-in-moscow-russian-investigators\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T07:40:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T07:40:22","slug":"three-people-killed-in-explosion-in-moscow-russian-investigators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2025\/12\/24\/three-people-killed-in-explosion-in-moscow-russian-investigators\/","title":{"rendered":"Three people killed in explosion in Moscow: Russian investigators"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><span>DEVELOPING STORY, <\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>The blast occurred close to the site where a Russian general was killed earlier this week.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div aria-live=\"polite\" aria-atomic=\"true\">\n<p>Two police \u2060officers \u200band another \u200dperson have been \u200dkilled in \u2060blast in southern \u200bMoscow, \u200caccording to the Russian Investigative Committee.<\/p>\n<p>The two traffic police officers were killed overnight on Tuesday into Wednesday in an explosion that occurred when they attempted to arrest a suspicious individual, the Committee said in a statement on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<section>\n<h2>Recommended Stories <\/h2>\n<p><span>list of 3 items<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span>list 1 of 3<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2025\/12\/22\/moscow-car-bomb-kills-russian-general\">Car bomb kills Russian general in Moscow<\/a><\/li>\n<li><span>list 2 of 3<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/gallery\/2025\/12\/23\/ukraine-deploys-low-cost-drones-to-counter-russias-aerial-attacks\">Photos: Ukraine deploys low-cost drones to counter Russia\u2019s aerial attacks<\/a><\/li>\n<li><span>list 3 of 3<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2025\/12\/24\/russia-ukraine-war-list-of-key-events-day-1399\">Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,399<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span>end of list<\/span><\/section>\n<p>\u201cAn explosive device was triggered\u201d as the officers approached the suspect who was near their service vehicle, the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwo police officers succumbed to their injuries,\u201d the statement said, adding that the person standing next to them also died in the explosion.<\/p>\n<p>An investigation for \u201cattempted murder\u201d of law enforcement officers and \u201cexplosives trafficking\u201d has been opened, it added.<\/p>\n<p>The area was cordoned off by a large police presence, according to images broadcast by Russian television.<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred on Yeletskaya Street in southern Moscow, near the site where a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2025\/12\/22\/moscow-car-bomb-kills-russian-general\">Russian General Fanil Sarvarov was killed<\/a> earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>Sarvarov, head of the operational training department within the Russian General Staff, was killed on Monday by an explosive device placed under a car.<\/p>\n<p>Since the start of the Russian offensive against Ukraine in February 2022, several Russian generals, local officials, and public figures supporting the offensive have died in explosions in Russia or in the occupied part of Ukraine. Kyiv has sometimes claimed responsibility for these attacks.<\/p>\n<p><i>More to come\u2026<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DEVELOPING STORY, The blast occurred close to the site where a Russian general was killed earlier this week. Two police \u2060officers \u200band another \u200dperson have been \u200dkilled in \u2060blast in southern \u200bMoscow, \u200caccording to the Russian Investigative Committee. 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