Hindustan Times (Lucknow)

Russian MP, husband die in explosion while ‘having sex’ in a car

- HT Correspond­ent

NOVOSIBIRS­K: A glamorous Russian lawmaker and her husband died in an explosion after one of the partners allegedly set off a grenade inside a parked car in which they were reportedly having sex, reports said.

The remains of Oksana Bobrovskay­a, who was in Vladimir Putin’s United Russia Party and the regional legislativ­e deputy of Novosibirs­k city, and her husband Nikita Bobrovskay­a, an ex-military special service personnel, were found semi-naked in the rear seat of their Toyota RAV-4 on Saturday.

It is suspected that Nikita, who had accused his wife of extra-marital affairs in the past, forced her to have sex with him while holding an explosive device in his hand. The 30-yearold MP’s face was reportedly ripped off in the explosion and all the windows, except the front windscreen, were blown out. “It was horrific — something you would not wish anyone to see. No heads, glass covered in blood ... a nightmare,” a witness told the Siberian Times. Vitaly Latypov, head of the investigat­ion department of Oktyabrsky district, told the Siberian Times that a ‘common grenade’ may have caused the explosion. “There is a version that he held in his hands a kind of grenade or a piece of TNT,” a police source said.

Novosibirs­k mayor Anatoly Lokot said Oksana and her husband’s death was due to problems in her family. “This was not a terrorist act,” the mayor said.

The couple is survived by their four-year-old daughter, Angelina.

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Oksana Bobrovskay­a

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