August 2004 Moscow Metro bombing
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, killing at least 10 people and wounding 50.
| August 2004 Moscow Metro bombing | |
|---|---|
| Location | Moscow, Russia |
| Coordinates | 55.7925°N 37.6361°E |
| Date | Tuesday, 31 August 2004 20:17 MSK (UTC+03:00) |
Attack type | Suicide attack |
| Deaths | 10 |
| Injured | 50 |
| Perpetrators | Karachay Jamaat Nikolai Kipkeyev Tambiy Khubiyev Murat Shavayev Maksim Panaryin Unknown female suicide bomber |
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. The deaths included the female bomber and her accomplice, Nikolay Kipkeyev, one of the perpetrators of a series of car bombings in 2001.
Kipkeyev, the head of an Islamic militant group Karachay Jamaat (also known as «Muslim Society No 3») from the Republic of Karachay–Cherkessia, had accompanied an unidentified female suicide bomber who was to blow herself up on a Moscow metro train. 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.