Earlier in the day, Russian Embassy in the country told Sputnik that the general director of the Russian House in the CAR, Dmitry Sytyi, was hospitalized in Bangui after an assassination attempt.
Bangui's police told Sputnik that Sytyi received a parcel bomb and it exploded on a table in Sytyi's cabinet.
"It seems that he started going through mail at the table, opened a parcel, began pulling what was in it, and the explosion occurred," the police said.
Photos from the blast site, obtained by Sputnik from the police, showed that there was a note at the crime scene with threats in French.
According to the police, Sytyi received threats prior to the attack.