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August 2004 Moscow Metro bombing

August 2004 Moscow Metro bombing
Memorial plaque to the victims of the terrorist attack at the Rizhskaya metro station
LocationMoscow, Russia
Coordinates55°47′33″N 37°38′10″E / 55.7925°N 37.6361°E / 55.7925; 37.6361
DateTuesday, 31 August 2004
20:17 MSK (UTC+03:00)
Attack type
Suicide attack
Deaths10
Injured50
PerpetratorsKarachay Jamaat
Nikolai Kipkeyev
Tambiy Khubiyev
Murat Shavayev
Maksim Panaryin
Unknown female suicide bomber

The August 2004 Moscow metro bombing took place at about 20:17 MSK on 31 August 2004, when a female suicide bomber blew herself up outside Rizhskaya metro station,[1] killing at least 10 people and wounding 50.[2]

The official investigation concluded that it was organized by the same group as the February 2004 Moscow Metro bombing, as well as four previous terrorist attacks on bus stops in Voronezh, southern Russia, in 2004–2005.[3] The deaths included the female bomber and her accomplice, Nikolai Kipkeyev, one of the perpetrators of a series of car bombings in 2001.[4]

Kipkeyev, the head of an Islamic militant group Karachay Jamaat (also known as «Muslim Society No 3»[4]) from the Republic of Karachay–Cherkessia, had accompanied an unidentified female suicide bomber who was to blow herself up on a Moscow metro train.[5][3] But the bomb apparently exploded prematurely while Kipkeyev and the assigned bomber were standing on the street next to the entrance to the metro station. Both died as a result of the explosion.[6]

  1. ^ "Крестовский поход" (in Russian). Kommersant. 1 September 2004. Archived from the original on 15 December 2017. Retrieved 21 August 2022.
  2. ^ Erin E. Arvedlund; Sophia Kishkovsky (2 September 2004). "After a Spate of Bombings, Moscow's Full of Foreboding". New York Times. Archived from the original on 27 July 2018. Retrieved 21 August 2022.
  3. ^ a b Yuri Syun (27 June 2005). "Московские теракты объединили с воронежскими" (in Russian). Kommersant. Archived from the original on 16 August 2022. Retrieved 19 August 2022.
  4. ^ a b Alexander Shvarev (28 September 2004). "Лучший ученик" (in Russian). Vremya Novostei. Archived from the original on 4 May 2009. Retrieved 21 August 2022.
  5. ^ Cite error: The named reference panaryin1 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  6. ^ Irina Borogan; Andrei Soldatov (1 April 2010). "The FSB Dropped the Ball". The Moscow Times. Archived from the original on 2 October 2012. Retrieved 21 August 2022.

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