A colonel's car was blown up in the Leningrad region. The bomb was delivered in a balloon for detonation.
A loud thump was heard early in the morning in the microdistrict of Slavyanka in St. Petersburg. At the time of the explosion, a colonel of the 6th Air Force and Air Defense Forces was in the car, Fontanka writes. According to media reports, the dead could have been the army's chief navigator Dmitry Lobodin.
What is known?
The explosive device was attached to the bottom of the car and activated remotely when the colonel left the yard. He was alone in the car. The driver managed to drive about 300 meters before the explosion. The force of the blast wave broke the windows of a passing bus, but none of the passengers were injured.
The bomb for the explosion was delivered to the Leningrad region by balloon from the Baltic side. An unknown person took it and left it in a hiding place, from where a 31-year-old resident of Petersburg, born in the Pskov region, took it.
The chargers were installed around 01:00 in the parking lot of a store on Kolpinskoye Road. Already at 02:43 the alleged terrorist flew from Pulkovo to Istanbul, where he landed at 06:05. At the time of the explosion, the suspect had already gone to Chisinau.
The investigative committee opened a criminal case under the murder charge. Investigators have cordoned off the scene of the explosion, and forensic experts are working on the scene.