The Russian Investigative Committee’s department in Moscow confirmed that one traffic police officer was killed in a blast in front of the Savyolovsky railway station in the Russian capital, and two more were injured.
“As a result of actions by the attacker, one traffic policeman sustained injuries incompatible with life and died at the scene of the incident. Two more policemen were injured in the explosion,” the investigators said. The attacker died at the scene, the Russian Interior Ministry’s department in Moscow said, after analyzing video recordings from surveillance cameras.
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Source: TASS News
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