Deadly Shooting at Russia Security Service Headquarters

(Bloomberg) -- A shootout occurred in central Moscow at the Lubyanka headquarters of Russia’s Federal Security Service as President Vladimir Putin was scheduled to attend a Kremlin concert less than a mile away to commemorate their work.

One of the employees of the FSB, as the intelligence service is known, was killed in the attack on Thursday by a lone gunman, who has been “eliminated,” the Investigative Committee said in website statement. Five people, including one civilian, were wounded.

Putin has been informed of the incident, Interfax reported, citing Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov.

Public access to roads around the security service’s building has been sealed off, the transport center of Moscow city government said on Twitter.

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