A 30-year-old Russian member of parliament and her husband have been killed in a car explosion on Saturday. The semi-naked bodies of Oksana Bobrovskaya, a member of Vladimir Putin’s United Russia Party, and her husband Nikita Bobrovsky were found in the rear seat of their Toyota RAV4.
The glamorous lawmaker and her husband died in an explosion after one of the partners is believed to have set off a grenade inside a parked car in which they were reportedly having sex, local reports said. Oksana’s face was reportedly ripped off in the explosion and all the windows, except the front windscreen, were blown out.
The Siberian Times quoted a witness to the explosion saying: “It was horrific – something you would not wish anyone to see. No heads, glass covered in blood … a nightmare.”
It added that head of the investigation department of Oktyabrsky district Vitaly Latypov said a ‘common grenade’ might have caused the explosion. “There is a version that he held in his hands a kind of grenade or a piece of TNT.”
Novosibirsk mayor Anatoly Lokot said Oksana and her husband’s death was due to problems in her family. “All versions regarding a terrorist act are withdrawn. This was not a terrorist act,” the mayor said.
It is suspected that Nikita, who had accused his wife of extra-marital affairs in the past, forced her to have sex with him holding an explosive device in his hand. The couple is survived by their four-year-old daughter, Angelina.