Three killed in Moscow restaurant explosion

Emergency vehicles in an area near a deadly explosion at a restaurant in Moscow (Sergei Vedyashkin/Moscow News Agency via AP)

An explosion at a restaurant in central Moscow has killed at least three people, Russian state media said on Saturday, citing local officials.

At least 15 people were injured in the explosion and investigators, forensic experts and emergency services were working at the scene, Russian state news agency RIA Novosti reported.

The exact number of dead and injured, as well as the circumstances of the incident on Moscow’s Kudrinskaya Square, are being established, the Moscow Investigative Committee told the news agency.