Explosion near Moscow cafe kills three: police
An explosion Saturday near a Moscow cafe killed at least three people and wounded another 15, police said, without saying what caused the blast. "From the information we have, an explosion happened today at around 8:10 pm (1710 GMT) near a summer cafe, causing three deaths and 15 injured, of varying degrees of seriousness," Moscow police said.
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- Published Date: 09:20 PM 01 August 2026
- Updated Date: 10:07 PM 01 August 2026
Three people were killed and 15 people injured in an explosion near a cafe in central Moscow on Saturday evening, the Russian capital's police force said in a statement.
The explosion occurred at around 2000 local time near a summer cafe located in or near one of Moscow's seven Stalin-era skyscrapers at Kudrinksaya Square, the police said. Those injured had received wounds of varying seriousness, it said.
Investigators and emergency services were working at the scene, the police said.
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