Terrorism and security in Moscow

A live hand grenade was seized from a drunken passenger in the Moscow metro on Thursday evening, the Interfax news agency reports.

The agency quoted a source from the city police as saying that the GG-42 grenade was in the possession of a 40-year-old man who was described as a deputy director of a private Moscow security firm. The incident took place at the Serpukhovskaya station south of the city center.