Grenade Jolts Moscow McDonald’s
Two drunken men were arrested for throwing a grenade at a police station near the Moscow McDonald’s, injuring a 5-year-old girl and seven other people waiting to enter the restaurant, authorities said Tuesday.
Police said the Monday night bombing was aimed at their precinct building and not the adjacent fast-food restaurant, which has been jammed daily with Russians and foreign tourists since it opened in 1990.
The explosion occurred at 7 p.m. several yards from the entrance to McDonald’s, which faces Pushkin Square.
The Interfax news agency quoted Security Ministry spokesman Alexander Mikhailov as saying the explosive was an RGD-5 anti-personnel fragmentation hand grenade. It was thrown at a window of Precinct No. 108 but ricocheted off protective iron bars, fell to the pavement and exploded, Interfax said.
It shattered the precinct office’s windows and three windows in the apartment building above it.
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