A man was killed in a car explosion in a suburb east of Moscow, Russian law enforcement said Tuesday morning, with the blast taking place in the same city where a military general was assassinated in a similar incident last year.

According to investigators, a car was blown up while passing by an apartment building in Balashikha at about 5:30 a.m.

One person was killed by a car bomb in Moscow's eastern suburbs early on Tuesday, the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation announced in a statement.