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Kumar Malhotra
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The distinctive yellow-colored apartment block in the background helped us verify the footage.
We are verifying images and video shared this morning that show the scene of a reported car bomb explosion that authorities in Russia say killed a high-ranking military officer in Moscow.
Officials in Russia confirmed that Lieutenant General Fanil Sarvarov was in the vehicle that exploded and that he later died of his wounds. An investigation is under way.
The initial step to check the location of where the images were from was based on posts indicating the blast occurred on Yasenevaya Street in the southern district of the capital city of Russia.
Our analysis employed panoramic mapping services on digital map platforms and the Russian search engine Yandex to corroborate the distinctive yellow hue of a nearby residential complex seen in the video.
Locating additional buildings, streetlights and the street layout verified the exact location the footage were taken.
We also checked that the video clips were new and that the images had not been digital alteration.
