{"id":6459,"date":"2025-12-24T07:03:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T07:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=6459"},"modified":"2025-12-24T07:03:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T07:03:18","slug":"three-killed-in-moscow-car-explosion-say-russian-authorities-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=6459","title":{"rendered":"Three killed in Moscow car explosion, say Russian authorities | Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Two traffic police officers and a third person have been killed in a car explosion in Moscow, Russia\u2019s Investigative Committee, which probes major crimes, said early on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The committee said in a statement \u201can explosive device was triggered\u201d when the officers approached a \u201csuspicious person\u201d near their police vehicle on Yeletskaya Street in the south of the capital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">A crime scene has been established and CCTV footage is being reviewed, said officials.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Images broadcast on Russian television showed an area cordoned off and a large police presence. Witnesses were quoted as describing an explosion that occurred at about 1.30am local time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">A senior Russian general, Lt Gen Fanil Sarvarov, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/dec\/22\/russian-general-fanil-sarvarov-killed-car-bomb-moscow-investigators-say\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">was killed this week <\/a>when a bomb exploded under his car in southern Moscow, according to Russian investigators. They described the death of the head of the operational training directorate of the Russian military\u2019s general staff as a likely assassination carried out by Ukrainian intelligence services. Sarvarov\u2019s car exploded while driving along Yaseneva Street at about 7am on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Russian officials and prominent pro-war voices have called for swift retribution for the attack \u2013 the third bombing in Moscow in the past year to claim the life of a senior Russian officer linked to the invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\"><em>With Reuters<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\"><em>More updates soon \u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>#killed #Moscow #car #explosion #Russian #authorities #Russia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two traffic police officers an&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6460,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6459"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}