DHAKA: Five people were lightly injured when a homemade explosive detonated at a bus stop in central Moscow.

Authorities said on Tuesday, reports NDTV.

The device went off Monday night on Pokrovka Street, a trendy area in central Moscow dotted with bars and restaurants.

‘A hooliganism inquiry has been opened,’ Moscow police spokesman Maxim Kolosvetov told the media.

Preliminary information suggests the makeshift explosive was thrown either from a car or a nearby residential building and hurt ‘several’ people, another Moscow police spokesman, Andrey Galiakberov, said.

A spokeswoman for the health department of the Moscow city hall said separately that four people received medical attention Monday night and three of them were hospitalized.

A fifth person turned to the authorities for help and was hospitalized on Tuesday, she said.

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