The Bobrovskaya family
A man killed himself and his wife by detonating a bomb in their car while having sex. The man and woman had argued about her cheating with a man before the irate husband set off the bomb in a jealous rage, police in Russia said.
Novosibirsk police said that 30-year-old Oksana Bobrovskaya, a member of the United Russia Party, and husband 35-year-old Nikita Bobrovsky did not survive the explosion.
Oksana Bobrovskaya
Evgenia Romanova, an eyewitness, who lives in an apartment block overlooking the car park where the couple died, said: 'First there was an explosion.
'The security alarms on neighbouring cars started to scream, and I joked to my husband that the war with Turkey must have begun.
'And then I looked out of the window and saw all this carnage. My husband went down to the street, and I looked through the window.
'It was horrific - something you would not wish anyone to see. No heads, glass covered in blood ... a nightmare.'
Her husband - believed to be in his early 30s - was a former special services officer in the Russian military. There were claims today that 'their relations were strained because her husband Nikita Bobrovsky was out of work, leaving her as the sole breadwinner'.
the ill-fated SUV
Major news outlet LifeNews later reported that an anonymous police source said forensic evidence indicated that the couple did have sex before the explosion.
The source said: 'Presumably during a fierce conflict, he began to force her to perform her conjugal duty by threats and showing her an explosive device.'
Police officers and paramedics who arrived at the scene, found both of them naked in the back seat of their Toyota RAV4. Forensic evidence showed that the couple had sex right before the explosion. All windows except the front windshield were blown out.
'There is a version that he held in his hands a kind of grenade, or a piece of TNT,' said a police source, according to The Siberian Times.
Bobrovskaya was an MP in the Novosibirsk regional legislature but also worked as deputy general director of a major construction company. She and her husband died close to the company's office. The couple left behind a 4-year-old daughter.