STORY: Russia conducts terror attack probe after senior military official killed by explosion 
SHOOTING TIME: Dec. 17, 2024 
DATELINE: Dec. 17, 2024
LENGTH: 00:00:48
LOCATION: Moscow
CATEGORY: MILITARY

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1. various of the explosion site

STORYLINE:

Russia has opened a terror attack investigation into an explosion that resulted in two deaths, including a senior military official, the Russian Investigative Committee said Tuesday.
   
Investigators are conducting a criminal investigation into murder, terrorist acts, and the illegal circulation of weapons and ammunition "in connection with the death of two servicemen in the capital," the committee said in a statement.
   
Earlier in the day, Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, head of the Russian Armed Forces' radiological, chemical and biological defense troops, and his assistant were killed by an explosion in a residential building in Moscow.
   
The committee had previously said it opened a criminal case, adding the blast occurred after the detonation of an explosive device planted in a scooter parked next to the entrance of the residential building.

Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Moscow.
(XHTV)