On a Saturday evening in the heart of Moscow, a woman carrying a homemade explosive device was stopped at the entrance of an upscale restaurant hosting a private gathering — and in that threshold moment, three lives ended and twenty-one others were altered. The blast at Balzi Rossi on Kudrinskaya Square raises enduring questions about motive, identity, and the fragile boundary between prevention and catastrophe. Investigators are left to reconstruct not only what happened, but why — a task made harder by the fact that the one person who knew the answer did not survive.
Homemade bomb detonates at Moscow restaurant, kills 3 and injures 21
Three people killed including a security guard and restaurant patron; 21 others wounded in the blast; female suspect also died in detonation.