MOSCOW, Russia (Reuters) — A homemade bomb carried by a woman killed three people — including the suspected bomber — and injured at least 21 in an explosion near an upscale restaurant in central Moscow on Saturday evening, Russian authorities said.

The explosion occurred just before 8 p.m. local time close to an Italian restaurant located in one of Moscow’s seven Stalin-era skyscrapers at Kudrinkskaya Square, the police said.

Russia’s Anti-Terrorism Committee said that an unidentified woman had tried to get into the restaurant but was stopped by a security guard, the state RIA news agency reported.

It said the woman, the security guard and a customer at the Balzi Rossi Italian restaurant had been killed in the blast that followed.

Those injured received wounds of varying seriousness, the police said.

Russia’s state RIA news agency released video of heavily armed law enforcement officers at the scene, which had been closed off to the public.

The authorities did not name those killed or injured, nor did they say who they thought........

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