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2002 incident in Grozny, Chechnya
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27 December 2002 Grozny bombing
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Location
| Grozny
, Chechnya (Russia)
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Date
| 27 December 2002
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Target
| Chechen government HQ
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Attack type
| Car bombs
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Deaths
| 83
[1]
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Injured
| 210
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Perpetrators
| Riyad-us Salihiin
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The
Grozny truck bombing
occurred on 27 December 2002, when three
Chechen
suicide bombers ran vehicles into the heavily guarded republic's
government
headquarters
in the regional capital
Grozny
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Details
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The drivers of two vehicles reportedly wore federal
military
uniforms
and carried official passes which allowed them through three successive military checkpoints on their way to the headquarters building. A guard at the fourth and final checkpoint attempted to inspect the vehicles, and began firing on the vehicles as they drove through the checkpoint towards the building.
The explosion by the equivalent of a ton of
dynamite
brought down the roof and floors of the four-story building. The first reports mentioned as few as two dead.
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Ultimately, Chechen officials said 83
[1]
people were killed (48 on the spot) and 210 were injured.
[3]
Several Chechen administration officials were injured in the attack, including
Deputy Prime Minister
Zina Batyzheva
(seriously wounded) and Chechen
Security Council
Secretary
Rudnik Dudayev
. The head of the pro-Russian administration in Chechnya,
Akhmad Kadyrov
, and his
Prime Minister
,
Mikhail Babich
, were not in the building at the time.
[4]
Responsibility
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Colonel
Ilya Shabalkin
, spokesman for the joint federal forces in Chechnya, said the bombing was organized by Chechen rebel field commanders
Abu al-Walid
and
Shamil Basayev
.
[5]
Basayev claimed responsibility for the planning and execution of the attack, saying that he personally detonated the bomb by
remote control
.
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Some news reports called the attack an act of
terrorism
,
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[8]
which with 83 confirmed fatalities, would have been the deadliest terrorist attack in Chechnya. Others described the attackers as militants and rebels and not terrorists.
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First Chechen War
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Second Chechen War
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