Two people were killed Tuesday and a third person injured in a car blast in the south-west of Moscow, news agencies reported quoting police. The car bomb, which killed a man and a woman, exploded around 10:30 local time (0730 GMT) near a residential building, a police spokesman said. The third victim, a woman, was taken to hospital with severe injuries.
The blast, which had an estimated force of 300 grams of TNT, shattered the windows of several apartments and damaged cars parked nearby.