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Homemade explosive carried by woman kills three, wounds at least 21 at Moscow restaurant
A homemade bomb carried by a woman killed three people and injured at least 21 in an explosion near an upscale restaurant in central Moscow on Saturday evening, the authorities said.
The explosion occurred just before 8:00 p.m. local time 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 that an unidentified woman had tried to get into the restaurant but was stopped by a security guard. The dead were the woman, the security guard and a customer at the Balzi Rossi Italian restaurant.
The Kommersant daily cited its own sources as saying that the bomb had been intended to maim and kill 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 that it was an explosive device.
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 restaurant had been closed on Saturday for a private event. FSB had pledged to step up protection for high-ranking military officials after killings it blamed on Kyiv.