February 2004 Moscow metro bombing
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| February 2004 Moscow bombing | |
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 The location of the metro blast on the map of Moscow |
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| Location | Moscow, Russia |
| Date | February 6, 2004 |
| Attack type | Suicide attack |
| Deaths | 40 |
| Injured | 102 to 120 |
| Perpetrator(s) | Muslim Society No 3 led by Nikolai Kipkeyev Anzor Izhayev (bomber) |
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The February 2004 Moscow metro bombing occurred on February 6, 2004 when a male suicide bomber killed 40 people in Moscow. The blast occurred near Avtozavodskaya subway station on the Zamoskvoretskaya Line. Up to 120 people were injured in the incident, many of them suffering from broken bones and smoke inhalation.
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[edit] The attack
The train left Avtozavodskaya station, on the metro system's green line, and was travelling north towards the city centre to Paveletskaya station when the blast occurred at about 0840 local time. There were scenes of panic and confusion as people fled the powerful explosion which was carried by a 20-year-old ethnic Karachay suicide bomber Anzor Izhayev.
President of Russia Vladimir Putin blamed Chechen separatists for the Moscow metro attacks. Chechen rebel leaders denied involvement.
[edit] Investigation
On February 2, 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.[1] 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.
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 has escorted an unidentified female suicide bomber to the Rizhskaya metro station in Moscow on August 31, 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 plead guilty to the charges they faced.[2]
[edit] References
- ^ Now they won't let them out for sure, Kommersant, February 3, 2007.
- ^ Terrorists switched from buses to metro, Kommersant, November 8, 2006.
