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More than 20 people injured in explosion near Italian restaurant on Saturday night, authorities say A homemade bomb carried by a woman killed three people and injured at least 21 in an explosion near a restaurant in central Moscow on Saturday evening, authorities said. The explosion occurred just before 8pm close to an Italian restaurant located in one of Moscow’s seven Stalin-era skyscrapers at Kudrinskaya Square, the police said. Russia’s anti-terrorism committee said an unidentified woman had tried to get into the restaurant but was stopped by a security guard, the state RIA news agency reported. It said the woman, the security guard and a customer at the Balzi Rossi Italian restaurant were killed in the blast that followed. Those injured received wounds of varying seriousness, the police said.
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Authorities said. Russia’s state RIA news agency released video of heavily armed law enforcement officers at the scene, which had been closed off to the public.
