Bomb blast injures four in Moscow

Four people including a schoolboy and an elderly woman were injured in a bomb blast in a market in Moscow, RIA Novosti says. The attack is "believed to be part of a turf war between retailers", a police source said on Monday. Bomb blast injures four in Moscow The blast on Sunday afternoon in the market on Lianozovsky Proyezd, near Altufyevo metro station and the MKAD ring road, had a force of 0.4-0.5 kg of TNT equivalent, the officer told RIA Novosti. "The home-made device was placed in a glass jar stuffed with explosives, nuts and bolts. According to eyewitnesses, two unidentified people dropped the device into a garbage container and set it off by lighting a fuse, before fleeing the scene," he said. A 68-year-old pensioner suffered first-degree burns, he said. The explosion shattered windows in two nearby stores. Investigators are treating a local turf-war as the most likely motivation for the attack.

Bomb blast injures four in Moscow

The blast on Sunday afternoon in the market on Lianozovsky Proyezd, near Altufyevo metro station and the MKAD ring road, had a force of 0.4-0.5 kg of TNT equivalent, the officer told RIA Novosti.

"The home-made device was placed in a glass jar stuffed with explosives, nuts and bolts. According to eyewitnesses, two unidentified people dropped the device into a garbage container and set it off by lighting a fuse, before fleeing the scene," he said.

A 68-year-old pensioner suffered first-degree burns, he said.

The explosion shattered windows in two nearby stores.

Investigators are treating a local turf-war as the most likely motivation for the attack.