LONDON -- A car bomb in Moscow has killed a senior Russian military officer, Russian officials said. The Russian Investigative Committee said Lt. Gen. Yaroslav Moskalik "was killed in an explosion" on Friday after an improvised explosive device allegedly planted in a parked car detonated in Balashikha, just outside Moscow.

A senior Russian general was killed in a car bomb attack in Moscow on Friday, hours before the US chief negotiator arrived in the capital for a further round of talks with Vladimir Putin.