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Emma Pengelly
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The distinctive yellow-colored residential building visible behind helped us locate the footage.
Our team is verifying video footage and photographs posted this morning that show the aftermath of a reported car bomb explosion that Russian officials state fatally injured a senior military officer in Moscow.
Officials in Russia confirmed that Lieutenant General Fanil Sarvarov was inside the vehicle that detonated and that he later died to his wounds. A probe is under way.
The initial step to check the location of where the pictures originated was based on social media reports saying the explosion occurred on Yasenevaya Street in the southern part of the Russian capital.
Our analysis employed panoramic mapping services on digital map platforms and the Russian search engine Yandex Maps to corroborate the unique yellow hue of a nearby residential complex seen in the footage.
Identifying additional structures, lamp-posts and the road configuration verified where the pictures were captured.
Additionally, we verified that the video clips were recent and that the images had not undergone digital alteration.
