Three people, including two police officers, were killed Wednesday in an explosion in Moscow, Russian investigators said, just days after a car bomb killed a senior general nearby.
The two traffic police officers were approaching a “suspicious individual” when an explosive device detonated, Investigative Committee spokesperson Svetlana Petrenko said. The officers and a bystander standing nearby died from their injuries.
Investigators and forensic teams are working at the scene, Petrenko added.
The incident occurred in the same area where Lt. Gen. Fanil Sarvarov, head of the Operational Training Directorate of the Russian Armed Forces’ General Staff, was killed by a car bomb on Monday morning.
Russian investigators have suggested that Ukraine may have been behind Sarvarov’s killing, marking the third targeted death of a senior Russian military officer in just over a year.