"On the fact of the explosion in the Nizhny Novgorod region of the car in which Zakhar Prilepin was moving with his family, the Main Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee of Russia initiated a criminal case," the report said.
According to the instructions of the Chairman of the Investigative Committee Alexander Bastrykin, investigators and employees of the forensic center of the department went to the scene.
On the afternoon of May 6, reports appeared on Telegram channels that Zakhar Prilepin's car had been blown up in Nizhny Novgorod.
According to TASS, the man was injured. RIA Novosti reported that the writer's car was blown up on the highway in the Nizhny Novgorod region, his driver died.
Medical workers reported that the writer was hospitalized with a leg wound.