Outside the Moscow restaurant where bomb killed three

Watch: BBC Russia editor Steve Rosenberg is at the scene in Moscow, where the explosion happened On Kudrinskaya Square the police cordon has been lifted outside the Balzi Rossi Italian restaurant. Investigators have left the scene. On Saturday night it had been surrounded by heavily armed police; a string of ambulances and emergency services vehicles had been parked outside. Standing next to the restaurant's summer terrace I spot signs of what happened here. A shattered window, pock-marked walls - a bomb had exploded with deadly consequences.

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