Turkish Police Arrest Man Suspected of Organizing Bomb Attack in Moscow

INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Updated throughout.Law enforcement authorities in Turkey have arrested a Russian man suspected of detonating a car bomb in Moscow on
was said to have arrived from Moscow to Bodrum Airport at 9:40 a.m
local time
through an SUV shortly after a man got into the vehicle.Russian media outlets, citing anonymous law enforcement sources, reported that the
According to those sources, Torgashev was hospitalized and in critical condition after both of his legs were blown off in the blast.The
Telegram news channel Astrareported that Torgashev serves as deputy chief of a Moscow region-based unit that is part of the Russian
denied her husband was injured in the attack and said someone else was inside the vehicle when the bomb went off
Likewise, the Kremlin-funded RT network claimed Torgashev himself denied he was injured.It was not immediately possible to verify either of
that the man suspected of carrying out the bomb attack had managed to flee to Turkey, where Russian authorities were seeking his
car explosions have rocked Russia since the Kremlin launched the full-scale invasion of Ukraine more than two years ago
The daughter of conservative Russian ideologue Alexander Dugin was killed in a bomb attack in the summer of 2022, with Moscow laying the
blame on Ukraine
And in May 2023, prominent pro-Kremlin writer and Russian nationalist Zakhar Prilepin survived a car blast in the Nizhny Novgorod region.