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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
World
Andy Gregory

Senior Russian naval officer killed in Crimea car bombing

The remains of a car that exploded in Sevastopol, killing Valery Trankovsky - (Local press)

A senior Russian naval officer has been killed in a car bombing in occupied Crimea – the latest in a series of targeted attacks on Russian military personnel.

Russian investigators said an unnamed serviceman was killed when an improvised explosive device detonated on Wednesday in the port city of Sevastopol – the primary headquarters of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet – and that the killing was being treated as terrorism.

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