Bombing at Moscow Restaurant Kills Three
An explosion tore through a restaurant in central Moscow, killing three people and wounding about twenty-one, Russian authorities said, describing it as a terrorist attack. No group claimed responsibility, and investigators had not named a suspect. Emergency services sealed off the area as they combed the wreckage.
The blast, in the heart of the Russian capital, was a rare breach of security in a city the Kremlin has sought to insulate from the war it is waging in Ukraine. Russian officials were quick to label it terrorism, though they offered no evidence of who was behind it, and such incidents have at times been blamed on Ukraine or on internal feuds. Moscow has seen a scattering of bombings and assassinations during the war, unsettling a population largely shielded from the fighting. The investigation was in its early hours. Watch for any claim of responsibility or official attribution.