Russian top military official injured in car explosion in Moscow, loses feet – photos
Pravda Ukraine
The Astra Telegram channel has reported that a Toyota Land Cruiser was blown up near a residential building on Sinyavinskaya Street in northern Moscow on the morning of 24 July. The car reportedly belongs to Andrei Torgashev, the deputy head of a radio transmission centre for a military satellite communications unit.
Source: Kremlin-aligned Russian news agency TASS; Astra Telegram channel
Details: As Astra found out, the vehicle belonged to Andrey Torgashev, Deputy Head of the Radio Transmission Centre for Military Unit 33790 in Moscow Oblast. According to open sources, Military Unit 33790 is the 89th Satellite Communications Centre of the Russian Armed Forces.
It was reported that the explosion occurred as a man and a woman were getting into a parked car. Early reports indicate that the man’s feet had been severed and the woman sustained shrapnel injuries. Both were hospitalised.
Russian police said the explosion occurred due to the detonation of an explosive device. The Russian Investigative Committee has started a criminal case into the explosion.
Investigators have classified the blow-up of a Toyota Land Cruiser in the north of Moscow as an attempted murder. One theory is that the blowing up of the car could have been connected to the official activities of its owner.
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