Moscow mayor calls a deadly bomb attack on a restaurant a ‘terrorist act’

Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin described a bomb attack at the upscale Balzi Rossi Italian restaurant as a brutal terrorist act. The explosion occurred Saturday evening in central Moscow, resulting in three deaths, including the female bomber, and leaving twenty-one people injured. While the mayor vowed to hunt down those responsible for the blast, he did not specify who was behind the attack. Russian state media reported the casualties following the detonation of a body-worn bomb.