MOSCOW: Three people, including two police personnel, were killed in an explosion in Moscow on Wednesday, according to the press service of the Russian Investigative Committee, local media reported.
According to the investigators, two traffic police officers saw a suspicious person near their patrol car on Yeletskaya Street in Moscow in the morning hours of Wednesday, Russia's leading news agency Tass reported. As the police personnel approached to arrest the person, an explosive exploded. As a result, two police personnel and the suspicious person were killed in the explosion.
Emergency services, investigators and forensic experts have started conducting probe at the site of the incident. The Moscow Department of the Russian Interior Ministry said that all the necessary assistance will be provided to the families of the victims.