An explosion in Moscow has killed the head of Russia’s Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Protection Troops, Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, the country’s Investigative Committee announced in a statement on Tuesday.
“According to investigators, on the morning of 17 December, an explosive device that had been planted in a scooter standing near the entrance of a residential building was detonated on Ryazansky Prospekt in Moscow,” the statement read, adding that both Kirillov and his assistant had been killed in the explosion.
Criminal investigators and forensics teams were working at the scene of the incident in an attempt to clarify the circumstances around the explosion, the statement continued, adding that a criminal case had been opened, although it was not specified under which article.
The explosive device, which was remotely detonated, according to Russian state news agency TASS, contained 300 grams of explosive material, various Telegram channels reported, and also blew out windows from lower floors of the apartment and damaged to general’s official car, according to Telegram channel Baza.