{"id":208373,"date":"2025-12-24T09:45:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T09:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/208373\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T09:45:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T09:45:06","slug":"two-police-officers-killed-in-moscow-explosion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/208373\/","title":{"rendered":"Two police officers killed in Moscow explosion"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two police officers were killed in an overnight explosion in Moscow when they tried to stop a suspicious person, Russia’s Investigative Committee has said in a statement.<\/p>\n

The blast occurred close to the site where a Russian general was killed earlier this week.<\/p>\n

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“An explosive device was triggered” as the officers approached the suspect who was near their service vehicle, said the statement by the committee, which investigates major crimes.<\/p>\n

An earlier statement on Telegram said investigators were inspecting the scene and carrying out forensic analysis, including “medical and explosive examinations”.<\/p>\n

The area was cordoned off and had a large police presence, according to images broadcast on Russian television, which quoted witnesses describing an explosion that occurred at around 1.30am local time (10.30pm Irish time).<\/p>\n

The blast took place near where Lieutenant General Fanil Sarvarov was killed on Monday by an explosive device that had been placed under his parked car.<\/p>\n

Sarvarov had been the head of the Russian General Staff’s training department.<\/p>\n

Since Moscow sent troops into Ukraine in February 2022, Kyiv has been blamed for several attacks targeting Russian military officials and pro-Kremlin figures both in Russia and in occupied parts of Ukraine.<\/p>\n

Kyiv has claimed responsibility for some of the attacks but has not commented on Monday’s incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two police officers were killed in an overnight explosion in Moscow when they tried to stop a suspicious…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208374,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-208373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}