The assault on a theater in Moscow, which killed dozens of individuals and injured a whole lot extra this Friday, joins an inventory of a number of assaults which have plunged the Russian capital into mourning over the previous 25 years. Bombs in flats, and so on Assault on one other rock live performance, assaults on the subway and even a remembered hostage state of affairs, with a deadly consequence, spotlight the direct and present historical past of the episode in Crocus Metropolis Corridor.
The authorities have already described the assault on the live performance corridor in northwest Moscow as a “bloody terrorist assault”. In the meantime, the Islamic State claimed duty for the assault by means of its communications company.
He September 13, 1999120 folks died in an assault Bomb in a constructing southeast of Moscow. It got here days after an explosion in one other constructing killed 90 folks.
In each instances, Russian authorities attributed the assault to “Chechen terrorists.” These occasions preceded the beginning of the second Russian-Chechen battle in October of the identical yr. Different theories declare that they had been orchestrated by the Russian secret service (FSB).
One of the vital well-known tragic episodes in Russia's latest historical past is the Hostage taking within the Dubrowka TheaterMoscow, which started on October 23, 2002 and lasted 4 days.
On that event, a Chechen commando of 21 males and 19 girls held greater than 900 hostages utilizing weapons and explosives. Through the rescue operation by the Russian armed forces, 130 folks died, most of them asphyxiated from the gases used throughout the operation.
In the meantime, on July fifth of the next yr, a Double suicide bombing On the entrance to a rock live performance at Moscow's Tushino airfield, 15 folks had been killed and greater than 50 had been injured in an assault carried out by two girls. The assault was by no means claimed, however Russian authorities attributed it to Chechen independence commandos.
On February 6, 2004 there was an explosive assault within the Moscow subwayclaimed by an unknown Chechen group (“Gazotan Murdash”), murdered 41 folks.
Six years later, on March 19, 2010, the Moscow subway once more grew to become a goal of terrorists. At the very least 40 folks have died in a double bombing within the Moscow subway that authorities blame on two feminine suicide bombers. One of many explosions occurred on the Lubyanka prepare station, in entrance of the headquarters of the Russian Safety Service (FSB).
On January 24, 2011, 37 folks had been killed and 130 injured in a suicide assault Moscow Domodedovo Airportwithin the arrival space of worldwide flights.
The then chief of the Islamist riot, the Chechen Doku Umarov, claimed duty for the motion.