A Russian security officer was killed today when a bomb he was trying to defuse exploded in a restaurant on a main road in central Moscow.
Russian police detained a woman who had brought the bomb to the restaurant in a bag and threatened to blow the place up, but they failed to defuse it by remote control, television news and agencies said.
The explosion comes five days after a suicide bomb attack, blamed on Chechen rebels, that killed 14 people at an open-air rock festival in Moscow.
