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Moscow Restaurant Blast

Explosion at a Moscow restaurant kills three and injures at least 21.

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Updated Aug 1, 8:22pm ET

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A homemade explosive device detonated near the Balzi Rossi restaurant on Moscow’s Kudrinskaya Square on Aug. 1, killing three people, including the woman suspected of carrying it, and injuring 21 others. Russia’s National Anti-Terrorism Committee said the woman tried to enter a private event with the device before it exploded; the dead also included a security guard and a restaurant patron. The blast occurred around 8 p.m. local time at the Italian restaurant, located in one of Moscow’s Stalin-era skyscrapers.

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