August 2004 Moscow Metro bombing

The August 2004 Moscow metro bombing took place in the morning on August 31, 2004, when a female suicide bomber blew herself up outside Rizhskaya metro station, killing at least 10 people and wounding 50.[1]

August 2004 Moscow Metro bombing
LocationMoscow, Russia
Date31 August 2004
Deaths10
Injured50
PerpetratorsMuslim Society No 3, led by Nikolai Kipkeyev

The official investigation concluded that it was organized by the same group as the February 2004 Moscow metro bombing, as well as two previous terrorist attacks on bus stops in Voronezh, southern Russia, in 2004. The deaths included the female bomber and her accomplice, Nikolay Kipkeyev (or Kipkeev), one of the perpetrators of the Moscow Metro bombongs just a few months earlier.

Kipkeyev, the head of an Islamic militant group Karachay Jamaat from the Karachay–Cherkessia Republic, had accompanied an unidentified female suicide bomber to detonate herself in a Moscow metro train. But the bomb apparently exploded prematurely while Kipkeyev and the assigned bomber were standing in the entrance hall of the metro station. Both died as a result of the explosion.[2]

References
  1. Erin E Arvedlund and Sophia Kishkovsky, After a Spate of Bombings, Moscow's Full of Foreboding, The New York Times, September 2, 2004
  2. The FSB Dropped the Ball, The Moscow Times, 01 April 2010

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