MBABANE:Igor Kirillov, a Senior General in charge of Russia’s Nuclear Ddefence Forces, was killed on Tuesday in a bomb blast in Moscow, Aljazeera has reported.
It has been reported that, a source in the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), talking to Al Jazeera, has claimed responsibility for the bombing.
During the early hours of Tuesday, Kirillov was killed by a bomb hidden in an electric scooter outside an apartment building on Ryazansky Prospekt, Russia’s investigative committee said in a statement.
“The attack site was 7km (4 miles) southeast of the Kremlin.The explosive device “had a capacity of some 300 grams in TNT equivalent”, Russia’s TASS news agency reported, quoting a law enforcement official”, Aljazeera reported.
Bomb blast kills Russian chief of nuclear protection forces in Moscow(pic: Aljazeera).