The intelligence committee said one officer from the security service was killed and five people, including a civilian, were treated for injuries
Security officers stand guard on a street near the Federal Security Service building after a shooting in Moscow, Russia, December 19 2019. Picture: REUTERS/SHAMIL ZHUMATOVRussian media on Friday said the man who opened fire near the headquarters of the security service in central Moscow, killing one and wounding five, is from a nearby town.
Numerous channels on the Telegram messenger service published a photo of the dead attacker, a bearded man in glasses, with his face bloodied. The Russian Federal Security Services , a successor to the KGB, has given little information on the lone gunman who was killed after an attack Thursday evening outside its headquarters on Lubyanka Square close to a busy shopping area in the heart of the Russian capital.
The paper interviewed the mother of the man, who said that he had been a security guard but had recently stopped working and “used to talk on the phone to some Arabs”, while she said she did not understand their conversation in English.
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