Vladimir Putin suffers huge blow as general killed in Moscow car bomb attack

Lt-Gen Fanil Sarvarov, head of the Department of Operational Training of Vladimir Putin's armed forces, has died in a suspected car bomb explosion

A high-ranking Russian general has been killed in a car bomb explosion.

Lt-Gen Fanil Sarvarov, head of the training department of Vladimir Putin's armed forces, died in the attack on Monday, December 22, it has been confirmed by investigators. Sarvarov reportedly suffered "multiple shrapnel injuries" and a "fractured facial bone" after a huge blast erupted in his Kia Sorento while he made his way to work in the Yasenevo district of Moscow.

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