man kills two police officers by detonating a bomb as they were going to arrest him

Two Moscow police officers died on Wednesday while They were going to arrest a suspect who activated an explosive device and also died in the incident. If confirmed, it would be the second terrorist attack perpetrated in the Russian capital in the last three days after the fatal attack against the chief of operations of Vladimir Putin’s army general staff.

“Two traffic policemen saw a suspicious person next to a police car. When they approached to arrest him, an explosive device was activated. As a result of the injuries sustained, both officers, as well as the person next to them, died,” the Russian Investigative Committee (IRC) reported on Telegram.

According to local authorities, the incident occurred in the early hours of Wednesday in the same district of southern Moscow where the military high command was attacked. The main investigation department of the CIR opened criminal cases for attack against law enforcement and illegal trafficking in explosives.

Currently, investigators and criminals are examining the scene, including genetic, forensic and explosive reports, to establish the mechanism of action of the bomb.

“The president of the CIR has instructed the criminologists of the central service to join the investigations to identify as quickly as possible the people linked to this crime, as well as all the circumstances,” indicated the agency, which hints at a kamikaze attack.

According to Telegram channel 112, the dead police officers were two lieutenants, 24 and 25 years old major who had been working in security agencies for a little over two years.

Last Monday, the chief of operations of the General Staff of the Russian army, Fanil Sarvarovdied in a car bomb attack in the same district of southern Moscow. The CIR previously attributed the attack to kyiv’s intelligence services. The Ukrainian website Myrotvorets, a database of people described as war criminals or traitors, updated its article on the 56-year-old general, saying he had been “liquidated.”

kyiv’s intelligence services carried out several operations on Russian territory last year that cost the lives of Vladimir Putin’s top military commanders, including the lieutenant general Yaroslav Moskalikdeputy head of the General Operations Directorate of the Russian General Staff, the general Igor Kirillovhead of the Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Defense Forces, or Zaur Gurtsievthe military officer responsible for coordinating the indiscriminate bombing campaign on the city of Mariupol.