Bomb kills Russian general
Yaroslav Moskalik, general staff deputy chief of operations, has been assassinated in a car bomb plot outside Moscow | A Russian one-star general serving as deputy operations chief of the general staff has been killed by a car bomb, officials have confirmed. The incident that claimed the life of Maj.Gen. Yaroslav Moskalik occurred on Friday morning in the suburban Moscow town of Balashikha. Russia’s Investigative Committee has said the improvised explosive device planted inside the car was packed with metal fragments for additional lethality. The news agency TASS has reported that investigators estimated the yield of the device as the equivalent of 300 grams of TNT.
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