February 2004 Moscow Metro bombing
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Location | Moscow, Russia |
Date | Friday, 6 February 2004 08:40 MSK (UTC+03:00) |
Target | Moscow Metro train |
Attack type | Suicide attack |
Deaths | 41 |
Injured | 102 to 120 |
Perpetrators | Nikolai Kipkeyev Anzor Izhayev (bomber) |
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The February 2004 Moscow metro bombing occurred on 6 February 2004 when a male suicide bomber killed 41 people near Avtozavodskaya subway station on the Zamoskvoretskaya Line in Moscow. Up to 120 people were injured in the incident, some of the more common injuries being broken bones and smoke inhalation.
The attack[]
The blast occurred at about 08:40 MSK on 6 February 2004 at Avtozavodskaya station, on the metro system's Zamoskvoretskaya Line.
President of Russia Vladimir Putin blamed Chechen separatists for the Moscow metro attacks. Chechen rebel leaders denied involvement.
A previously unknown Chechen terrorist group claimed responsibility for the bombing; the claim came from a group calling itself Gazoton Murdash, and signed by Lom-Ali ("Ali the Lion").[1] According to the statement, the group launched the attack to mark the fourth anniversary of the killing of scores of Chechen civilians by Russian soldiers in Grozny in the Novye Aldi massacre.
Shamil Basayev said that for his organization, the cost was $7,000 U.S. dollars.[2]
Perpetrators[]
On 2 February 2007, Tambiy Khudiyev and Maksim Panaryin from Karachay-Cherkess Republic and Murad (Murat) Shavayev from Moscow were found guilty of terrorism and murder in connection with the explosion and have been given life sentences by the court.[3] According to the sentence, Khudiyev and Panaryin were trained in camps in Chechnya and organized the suicide bombing under the orders of the ethnic Ukrainian Islamic militant Nikolai Kipkeyev. Shavayev, who worked as a Justice Ministry bailiff in Moscow, brought the explosives for them.[citation needed]
Panaryin was also found guilty of planting bombs on several bus stops in Krasnodar in August 2003 (four people died and 17 were injured in these attacks). After the metro bombing, he continued planting explosives, blowing up several bus stops in July 2004 in Voronezh (one person died and nine were injured).
Kipkeyev was not satisfied with low casualties and started preparing a new metro explosion. He escorted an unidentified female suicide bomber to the Rizhskaya metro station in Moscow on 31 August 2004, however the bomber panicked and detonated the explosives before entering the station, killing Kipkeyev and 10 other people. Khudiyev and Panaryin were arrested in 2005 and pleaded guilty to the charges they faced.[4]
See also[]
- 1977 Moscow bombings
- March 2004 Madrid train bombings, a similar but larger attack.
- August 2004 Moscow Metro bombing
- 2010 Moscow Metro bombings
- 2017 Saint Petersburg Metro bombing
References[]
- ^ Chechen group "Gazoton Murdash" claims responsibility for blast in Moscow metro Archived 2007-05-20 at archive.today
- ^ Dougherty, Jill. "Chechen 'claims Beslan attack'." CNN. Friday 17 September 2004. Retrieved on 31 October 2011.
- ^ Now they won't let them out for sure, Kommersant, February 3, 2007.
- ^ Terrorists switched from buses to metro, Kommersant, November 8, 2006.
External links[]
- Moscow metro bombing: new details emerge
- Many dead in Moscow metro blast (BBC)
- In Pictures: Moscow blast (BBC)
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- Operations of the Second Chechen War
- Disasters on the Moscow Metro
- Islamic terrorism in Russia
- Railway accidents in 2004
- Suicide bombing in the Chechen wars
- Terrorist incidents in Moscow
- Terrorist incidents of the Second Chechen War
- Terrorist incidents on underground rapid transit systems
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- Zamoskvoretskaya Line
- Terrorism in Europe
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