Policemen hurt in Moscow house explosion are stable

ITAR-TASS News Agency, Russia
December 22, 2006 Friday

MOSCOW, December 22 — A small bomb went off at 157, Lyublinskaya
Street in southeastern Moscow at 5:48 p.m. local time on Friday.

"A police dog handler and two officers from the police cordon were
hurt and taken to hospital. Their condition is stable," the source
said. "The bomb went off when the patrol was examining a box with
a glass jar of an unknown substance. Eyewitnesses said there was a
swastika on the jar."

Moscow deputy prosecutor Vyacheslav Kozlov visited the crime scene.
The local prosecutor’s office opened a criminal case on the charge
of malicious hooliganism.

The bomb went off near an apartment of ethnic Armenians.

"Tenants found the suspicious jar on the stairs and called the police,"
the source said. The police dog handler was examining the jar when the
explosion occurred. He and the dog were injured with pieces of glass,
which was broken by the blast wave.

More sniffer dogs are examining the area for other suspicious
objects. Tenants have not been evacuated but the place is cordoned.