Four injured in blast at bus stop on Pokrovka Street in central Moscow - healthcare department
Four people were injured as a result of an explosion at a bus stop in the center of Moscow, a spokesman for the Russian capital's health department told Interfax on Tuesday.
"The latest reports indicate that four people were injured as a result of the incident. Three of them were admitted to the Sklifosovsky Emergency Medicine Institute," the spokesman said.
The fourth injured person received outpatient medical care as the scene, he said.
"The injuries are not serious," he added.
An improvised explosive device could have blown up at the bus stop in central Moscow.
"The preliminary information available indicates that an improvised thunder flash thrown from a passing car or from a window of a multi-storey building could have caused the explosion," Moscow police spokesman Andrei Galiakberov told Interfax on Monday.
For his part, a source in law enforcement agencies told Interfax that the explosive device detonated at the public transport stop in the center of Moscow is believed to have contained the equivalent of 50 grams of TNT.
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