One person was killed and 15 others were injured in an explosion in a cafe in the center of St. Petersburg, northwest Russia (Sunday). According to the emergency service, the explosion was caused by a 200-gram explosive device planted in the Street Bar cafe.
Russian media quoted the emergency service as saying that the site of the explosion was in the "Street Bar" cafe located in Building No. 25 on Universitskaya Naberezhnaya Street in the city center, indicating that the military correspondent, Vladylin Tatarsky, was killed in the explosion and 15 others were wounded with him.
Russia Today channel indicated that the explosion led to the collapse of the 15-square-meter facade of the café, and the weight of the explosive device was more than 200 grams of the highly explosive TNT.
And the channel reported that the Prosecutor General in St. Petersburg, Victor Melnik, arrived at the scene of the explosion, indicating that Vladlen Tatarsky is the pseudonym of the journalist Maxim Fomin, and he has acquired this name (Tatarsky) since the beginning of the Russian-Ukrainian war.
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