An Aurus limousine believed to be part of Vladimir Putin’s official car fleet exploded and caught fire in Moscow. Footage appears to show the £275,000 Aurus Senat ablaze on a street just north of Moscow’s FSB secret service Lubyanka headquarters.
The car is believed to be part of a fleet of vehicles belonging to the Kremlin’s Presidential Property Management Department. Images show the engine fire spreading to the interior of the limousine. It was not clear who was in the vehicle at the time of the incident.
Nor has there been any confirmation about what caused the sudden blaze on Sretenka Street.
Reports suggest that there were no injuries or fatalities as a result of the explosion and fire.
Putin, 72, routinely uses the Russian-made cars and has gifted the limousines, for example to North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un.
The incident is likely to increase Kremlin paranoia that foreign agents are plotting to assassinate Putin.
Earlier this year, the Kremlin warned any attempt to assassinate the Russian leader would be met with a nuclear response.
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