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Emma Pengelly
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The distinctive yellow-fronted residential building visible behind assisted us locate the video.
Our team is analyzing video footage and photographs shared this morning that depict the scene of a alleged car bomb explosion that authorities in Russia say fatally injured a high-ranking military officer in Moscow.
Officials in Russia stated that Lieutenant General Fanil Sarvarov was inside the vehicle that detonated and that he succumbed of his injuries. An investigation is currently ongoing.
Our starting point to check the location from which the images originated relied on social media reports indicating the explosion happened on Yasenevaya Ulitsa in the southern part of the Russian capital.
Our analysis employed panoramic mapping services on Google Maps and the Russian search engine Yandex Maps to corroborate the unique yellow hue of a adjacent residential complex captured in the footage.
Locating other buildings, streetlights and the road configuration confirmed where the footage were captured.
Additionally, we verified that the video clips were new and that the images had not undergone manipulated.
