Two Russian police officers killed in explosion in Moscow (National)

Three people, including two police officers, were killed in an explosion in Moscow on Wednesday, Russian investigators said, just days after an explosion. car bomb killed a high-ranking general not far.

The two traffic police officers were approaching a “suspicious individual” when an explosive device detonated, Investigative Committee spokeswoman Svetlana Petrenko said in a statement. The two officers, as well as another person who was nearby, died from their injuries.

Investigators and forensic experts are working on site, Petrenko said.

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The incident took place in the same district of the Russian capital where Lieutenant General Fanil Sarvarov was killed by a car bomb on Monday morning.

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Sarvarov, head of the Operational Training Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, died when an explosive device detonated under his vehicle in southern Moscow.

Investigators said Ukraine may have been behind the attack, which was the third such killing of a senior army officer in just over a year.