Bomb carried by woman kills three, injures 21 near Moscow restaurant

A homemade bomb carried by a woman killed three people and injured at least 21 in an explosion near an upscale restaurant in central Moscow on Saturday evening, the authorities said.



The explosion occurred just before 2000 local time close to an Italian restaurant located in one of Moscow's seven Stalin-era skyscrapers at Kudrinkskaya Square, the police said. Russia's Anti-Terrorism Committee said that an unidentified woman had tried to get into the restaurant but was stopped by a

security guard, the state RIA news agency reported.



It said the woman, the security guard and a customer at the Balzi Rossi Italian restaurant had been killed in the blast that followed.