Police in the Russian capital confirmed to AFP that "an explosion took place at a bus stop on Pokrovka Road", in the city centre here last night.
"Security forces are establishing the circumstances and the causes of the explosion," a police spokesman said without giving further details.
TASS quoted a police source as saying: "An improvised explosive device exploded at the bus stop, causing three injuries."
Two of the injured were women who were taken to hospital, the source said, without saying how badly they were injured.