Improvised Bomb Kills 3 at an Upscale Moscow Restaurant

Among the victims of the explosion, which also injured 21 people, were a security guard and a woman who the authorities say had arrived with the suspicious package. Three people were killed and 21 injured after an improvised bomb was detonated at a restaurant in central Moscow, Russia’s National Anti-Terrorism Committee Information Center told the state news agency TASS. At 7:55 p.m., “a homemade explosive device detonated in a restaurant on Kudrinskaya Square in Moscow, killing three people: a security guard who prevented an unknown woman suspected of attempting to smuggle an explosive device from entering the restaurant, the unknown woman herself, and one of the patrons,” the National Anti-Terrorism Committee said, according to TASS. Russia’s Investigative Committee, the country’s equivalent of the F.B.I., has launched a terrorism investigation. The upscale restaurant, Balzi Rossi , sits in a very central area of Moscow, just off the Garden Ring, in a Stalin-era skyscraper.

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