Non-fatal injuries 200 Date 12 May 2003 Total number of deaths 59 | Perpetrators Caucasus Emirate Perpetrator Caucasus Emirate Attack type Suicide attack | |
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Location Znamenskoye, Chechen Republic, Russia Similar 2012 Makhachkala attack, 2010 Stavropol bomb blast, 2003 Red Square bombing, February 2004 Moscow, 2014 Grozny bombing | ||
The Znamenskoye Grozny suicide bombing happened on May 12, 2003, in Znamenskoye in Chechnya, when three rebel suicide bombers, including two women, drove a truck bomb into a local government administration and the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB) directorate complex, killing at least 59 people and injuring about 200, mostly civilians.
The complex contained the republican headquarters of the FSB. The mainstream wing of the rebels led by Aslan Maskhadov denied involvement and condemned the attack.
A Chechen warlord Khozh-Akhmed Dushayev was blamed for organizing the blast. No formal charges were ever brought and Dushayev was killed in Ingushetia in June 2003.
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