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In the center of Chisinau, a car exploded today. According to preliminary data, several people died, there are wounded. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Moldova, the tragedy occurred in the parking lot near the office building. According to eyewitnesses, the car exploded after its owner got into the car and started it. The driver is hospitalized in serious condition. The details of the incident are clarified.

Former apartment building of the Privalov merchants on Sadovnikiya Street, 9 is on a second time On the morning of July 7, a fire occurred in Moscow in the former revenue house of the Privalov merchants, who was trying to demolish investors to build a new revenue facility, but who did not succeed due to the protests of the inhabitants of the house. Residents are sure that this is arson. In the Archnadzor movement, this possibility also does not exclude.

In the capital of Dagestan Makhachkale, a police officer was killed on Wednesday night. According to Interfax with reference to the Republican Investigative Committee, the unknown shot at the policeman and disappeared. The search for the attacker is being conducted.

In Zlatoust (Chelyabinsk region), four people were found in a burned apartment with traces of violent death. As Interfax reports with reference to the representative of the regional department of the Investigative Committee, the dead are local residents, stab wounds were the cause of their death. Apparently, the apartment was set on fire to cover the traces of the crime. A criminal case has been opened. There is a search for criminals.

The court in Chelyabinsk appointed the widow of a worker who died in production, compensation for a million three hundred thousand rubles. In August 2010, as a result of an accident at the Chelyabinsk electrometallurgical plant, one of the workers remained a disabled person, the other was the 34-year-old melter of ferroalloys-died. During the investigation, it turned out that the fault for the incident lies on the employer.

In the Novosibirsk region there was an explosion on the site of the West Siberian Railway. According to law enforcement agencies, an explosive device with a capacity of up to a kilogram in TNT equivalent worked. People were not injured, rails and sleepers are damaged. Trains were sent to the detour of the explosion - in parallel sections. The criminal case is investigated under the articles "Intentional damage to property" and "Illegal circulation of explosives."

The European Union proposed to single out at least 150 million euros as compensation for losses incurred by manufacturers and vegetable merchants during the outbreak of E.Coli infection. At a meeting of agricultural ministers in the EU countries in Luxembourg, it was announced on Tuesday that in addition to 150 million euros, funds from various funds would be allocated. A flash of infection caused the death of 22 people - mainly in Germany.

Yemena President Ali Abdalla Saleh In Yemen, the rebels established control over the second largest city in the country of Taiz. This was announced by the France-Presse agency as the leader of one of the influential local tribes Hammud Said al-Mikhlafi. In the city of Zinjibar in the south of Yemen last night, at least 15 people died during clashes between government troops and a group of armed people. According to information agencies, there are victims on both sides.

The famous Viennese lawyer Gabriel Lansky criticized the authorities of Austria, who, according to him, cover the criminals and help them hide from justice. The accusations are connected with the case of the former ambassador of Kazakhstan in Vienna Rakhat Aliyev, whom Kazakhstan accuses of abduction of people and murders, ”said Radio Liberty correspondent Maria Klein.

Photo of a murdered policeman shown by state Syrian television Syria authorities threaten with "gesture measures" in response to attacks armed detachments for security forces in the north of the country. On the eve of the city of Jisr-Esh-Shugur, a special operation was carried out, the victims of which were several dozen people. The state media of Syria argue that over the past day at least 120 police officers have been killed in Jisr-Esh-Shugur.