War correspondent Maxim Fomin, better known as Vladlen Tatarski, died and 16 others were injured in an explosion at the Street Food Bar №1 cafeteria in Saint Petersburg, Russia’s second largest city, the Ministry of Internal Affairs reported. from that country.
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According to preliminary data, an evening of debate with the journalist was taking place at the premises, in which a woman gave him a statuette that concealed the explosive device.
The emergency services indicated that the bomb contained shrapnel. Adding that the power of the device was equivalent to more than 200 grams of TNT. They also explained that there was no fire after the outbreak.
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They also reported that all the injured were treated by medical personnel. In addition, the Investigative Committee of Russia opened a criminal case. The agency ensures that “all the circumstances and details of the crime are being established.”
For its part, the organizer of the meeting, Cyber Front Z, expressed its condolences to everyone who knew the correspondent. “During our event, a terrorist attack took place at the cafe we rented. We took certain security measures, but unfortunately they were not enough,” he declared.
Tatarski was 40 years old at the time of his death. He was a well-known Donbas military commander and war correspondent with more than 560,000 subscribers on his Telegram channel. Shortly after the tragedy, citizens began bringing flowers to the site of the explosion.