{"id":25248,"date":"2026-08-02T14:47:34","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T09:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=25248"},"modified":"2026-08-02T14:47:34","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T09:47:34","slug":"several-people-killed-in-explosion-at-moscow-restaurant-russian-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=25248","title":{"rendered":"Several people killed in explosion at Moscow restaurant, Russian officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>An explosion Saturday at a Moscow restaurant that killed three people and wounded 21 others was a bombing, Russia&#8217;s national anti-terrorism committee said, the Tass state news agency reported.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;A homemade explosive device blew up at a restaurant in Kudrinskaya Square in Moscow, killing three people,&#8221; said the committee, quoted by the Tass state news agency.<\/p>\n<p> The three people killed were a woman carrying the device into the restaurant, a security agent who stopped her and a customer, the committee added.<\/p>\n<p> The 21 wounded suffered injuries of varying degrees of severity, said the anti-terrorism committee.<\/p>\n<p> An earlier statement by Moscow police to the Ria Novosti news agency said investigators and police forensic specialists were at the site. <\/p>\n<p> Images posted on Russian Telegram channels showed fire engines and ambulances outside the building.<\/p>\n<p> Russia has been the target of several terrorist attacks in the past.<\/p>\n<p> Since the start of the war in Ukraine in 2022, Ukraine&#8217;s secret service has claimed or been accused of several attacks on Russian military officers and public figures backing the conflict.<\/p>\n<p> Russia blamed Ukraine for the killing of a senior general, Yaroslav Moskalik, in a car bomb in April 2025.<\/p>\n<p> In August 2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/daria-dugina-car-explosion-killed-russia-daughter-alexander-dugin\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">the nationalist Daria Dugina<\/a>, daughter of hardline Russian ideologue Alexander Dugin, was killed outside Moscow when a bomb attached to her car detonated.<\/p>\n<p> Many believe her father was the intended target.<\/p>\n<p> In April 2023, pro-Kremlin military blogger Vladlen Tatarsky\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/st-petersburg-bomb-cafe-military-blogger-vladlen-tatarsky\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">was killed when a statuette<\/a> he was handed exploded at a cafe in St. Petersburg.<\/p>\n<p> A bomb attached to a scooter outside a Moscow apartment block killed Gen. 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