15 Jun 2012 10:59

Three offices of Investigative Committee evacuated in Moscow over bomb scare - spokesman

MOSCOW. June 15 (Interfax) - Russian Investigative Committee officers have been evacuated from three buildings in Moscow following anonymous telephone calls regarding allegedly planted bombs, the Investigative Committee spokesman Vladimir Markin told Interfax on Friday.

"Currently, officers of three departments of the Russian Investigative Committee have been evacuated due to reports on possible explosions," Markin said.

In particular, the bomb alerts came to the Investigative Committee headquarters in Tekhnichesky side street, the Investigative Committee department in the Central Federal District in Shcherbakovskaya street and Investigative Committee criminal investigation department in Baumanskaya street, he said.

"FSB bomb disposal experts are working in the buildings," Markin added.

It was reported earlier that opposition leaders Boris Nemtsov, Ilya Yashin and Ksenia Sobchak were summoned for questioning to the Russian Investigative Committee as part of a probe into May 6 events on Bolotnaya square in Moscow.