Moscow Restaurant Blast: Expert Suggests Courier Unaware of Explosive Content
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- An improvised explosive device detonated near a Moscow restaurant on August 1, killing a woman, a security guard, and a visitor, and injuring 21.
- An Alpha counter-terror group veteran suggested the woman, acting as a courier, might have been unaware of the parcel's explosive contents, citing alleged Ukrainian intelligence tactics.
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An improvised explosive device exploded near a Moscow restaurant, killing three and injuring 21. An expert suggested the woman who brought the device might have been an unwitting courier for Ukrainian intelligence.
MOSCOW, August 2. /TASS/. The woman who tried to bring an explosive to a restaurant in the center of Moscow could have been unaware of the parcel’s contents, Alpha counter-terror group veteran Sergey Goncharov told TASS.
"Each day, [Ukrainian intelligence] agents are arrested. Naturally, all the threats cannot be neutralized. And so, we have this tragedy. <…> The woman was a courier. She was promised good money. They told her, for example: ‘A friend of ours is celebrating a jubilee and your job is just to bring this parcel to the party and hand it over to the person celebrating his jubilee. This was her sole task. <…> We have had such instances," he said.
On the evening of August 1, an improvised explosive device exploded near a restaurant in Kudrinskaya Square in downtown Moscow. A woman tried to bring the bomb into the restaurant and was stopped by a security guard. Both of them and a restaurant visitor were killed in the blast while 21 others were injured.
Açık Sorular
- Who orchestrated the attack?
- Was the woman truly unaware of the parcel's contents?
- What is the current status of the investigation?
