Bomb kills chief of Russian nuclear protection forces in Moscow

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20241217 Bomb kills chief of Russian nuclear protection forces

A view shows a scene of an explosion in which, according to Russia's investigative committee, Russian general Igor Kirillov, in charge of nuclear protection forces, and his assistant were killed in Moscow on Dec. 17. © Reuters

MOSCOW (Reuters) -- A bomb hidden in an electric scooter killed a senior Russian general in charge of nuclear protection forces in Moscow on Tuesday, Russia's investigative committee said.

Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, who is chief of Russia's Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Protection Troops, was killed outside an apartment building on Ryazansky Prospekt, which starts a road some 7 kilometers (4 miles) southeast of the Kremlin.

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