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MOSCOW (AP) — A senior Russian military officer was killed by a
car bomb on Friday, Russia’s top criminal investigation agency
said.
The Investigative Committee said that Lt. Gen. Yaroslav Moskalik,
a deputy head of the main operational department in the General
Staff of the Russian armed forces, was killed by an explosive
device placed in his car in Balashikha, just outside Moscow.
The committee's spokesperson, Svetlana Petrenko, said the
explosive device was rigged with shrapnel. She said that
investigators were at the scene.
Russian media ran videos of a vehicle burning in the courtyard
of an apartment building.
The committee didn’t mention possible suspects.
The attack follows the killing of Lt. Gen. Igor Kirillov, who
died on Dec. 17 when a bomb hidden on an electric scooter parked
outside his apartment building exploded as he left for his
office. The Russian authorities blamed Ukraine for the killing
of Kirillov.
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