Moscow restaurant bombing kills three people as device carried by woman explodes

More than 20 people injured in explosion near Italian restaurant on Saturday night, authorities say

A homemade bomb carried by a woman killed three people and injured at least 21 in an explosion near a restaurant in central Moscow on Saturday evening, authorities said.

The explosion occurred just before 8pm close to an Italian restaurant located in one of Moscow's seven Stalin-era skyscrapers at Kudrinskaya Square, the police said.