June 2000 Chechnya suicide bombings
June 2000 Chechnya suicide bombings | |
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Part of Second Chechen War | |
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Location | Chechnya, North Caucasian Federal District, Russia |
Date | 6 June 2000 |
Attack type | suicide attack |
Weapons | car bomb |
Deaths | 2 — Russia claimed 27 — rebels claimed |
Injured | 5 |
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(guerrilla phase)
- Galashki
- 1st suicide bombings
- 2nd suicide bombings
- Alkhan-Kala
- Vedeno
- 1st Grozny crash
- Tsotsin-Yurt
- Shelkovskaya crash
- 2nd Grozny
- Khankala crash
- Grozny truck bomb
- Znamenskoye suicide bombing
- 2004 Moscow
- Grozny Stadium
- Nazran
- 1st Avtury
- 4th Grozny
- 1st Nalchik
- Dagestan sieges
- Borozdinovskaya
- Makhachkala bombing
- 2nd Nalchik
- Gimry
- 2nd Avtury
- Vladikavkaz crash
- Border incident
- Shatoy crash
- Zhani-Vedeno
- Second Vladikavkaz
The June 2000 Chechnya suicide bombings were Chechnya's first suicide attacks with car bombs.
On June 6, 2000, the 17-year-old Khava Barayeva (relative of Arbi Barayev), accompanied by 16-year-old Luiza Magomadova, drove a truck loaded with explosives through a checkpoint of an OMON base at Alkhan-Yurt in Chechnya. Barayeva detonated her bomb outside the barracks, killing a number of paramilitary police troops (rebels claimed up to 27 were killed, but the Russians claimed only two were killed and five were injured).
Another suicide bombing, which killed two OMON troops at a checkpoint leading to the Khankala base, was carried five days later on June 11 by a former Russian prisoner of war Sergey Dimitriyev who had converted to Islam and joined the rebels while in captivity.
Sources
- Suicide Operations in Chechnya: An Escalation of the Islamist Struggle
External links
- Suicide bombers strike in Chechnya, BBC News, 8 June 2000