and 30, others wounded when a bomb exploded in a cafe and st petersburg today we are now hearing from russian state media that the explosive device may have been hidden inside a figurine presented to the blogger. the dead blogger had more than half a million followers on his pro military blog, where he aggressively supported the war in ukraine yet openly criticized the setbacks. russian troops face there. let s get right to cnn s matthew chance in moscow. matthew was this looking like a targeted attack. i mean, you ve got to be thinking that way, haven t you, given the circumstances that are being set out by the investigators and the eyewitnesses that are speaking to russian state media, saying that basically this character, this pro war military blogger who was the guest speaker at an event packed with other supporters of the war in ukraine was basically given a statue figurine, a little statuettes by somebody in the crowd. who was supporter of his supposedly and shortly aft
shortly after he received that the explosion took place, and so eyewitnesses are saying, i m linking it to the advice pop potentially being in the in the figurine. it s not been officially confirmed. yet. investigators are still at the scene at that cafe in the russian city of st petersburg, sweeping up the area forensically to try and get to the bottom it bottom of it, but , you know, clearly this was an attack designed to specifically take out this individual. and that s exactly what happened because there s one confirmed person who s dead. vlad lynn tartakovsky to task. it s not his real name. his real name is maxim from foaming, but that was the name he went by. there are 30, other people who have been injured. you can see from the scene after the blast inside that cafe we re watching. those numbers very closely in place. they climb the health ministry in russia, saying six people in a serious condition. jim all