A senior Russian general in charge of the country’s nuclear protection forces in Moscow was killed by a bomb hidden in an electric scooter on Tuesday, an investigative committee said.
Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, who was chief of Russia’s Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Protection Troops, was killed outside an apartment building on Ryazansky Prospekt, which is located around 7km (4miles) southeast of the Kremlin. His assistant also died in the blast.
