The “Crocus” tragedy is one of the most significant terrorist attacks in Russia.
Radar Armenia presents a timeline and some data from known cases below.
On June 14, 1995, militants led by Shamil Basayev took hostage 1586 inhabitants of Budyonovsky (Stavropol region) and kept them in the building of the city hospital.
129 people died, and 317 were injured.
On November 16, 1996, terrorists blew up a nine-story residential building in Kaspiysk (Dagestan), where the families of border guards lived.
68 people died.
On March 19, 1999, an explosion occurred in the central market of Vladikavkaz. The criminal who planted the bomb acted on the instructions of international terrorist Khattab.
52 people died, and 150 were injured.
On September 4, 1999, in Buynaksk (Dagestan), terrorists blew up a five-story residential building on Shikhsaidov Street, where the families of Russian officers of the 136th Brigade of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation lived.
64 people died, and 146 were injured.
On September 8, 1999, a terrorist attack took place in a nine-story residential building on Guryanov Street in Moscow.
100 people died, and 690 were injured.
On September 13, 1999, an explosion with the equivalent of about 300 kg of TNT took place in residential building No. 6 on Kashirskoye Highway in Moscow.
124 people died, and 7 were injured.
On May 9, 2002, a terrorist attack took place during the Victory Day celebration in Kaspiysk (Dagestan).
43 people died, and 120 were injured.
On October 23-26, 2002, in Moscow, a group of armed militants led by Movsar Baraev held 912 spectators hostage in the building of the Dubrovka Theater Center.
Killed: 130.
On December 27, 2002, in Grozny, in the yard of the Chechen government, suicide bombers blew up “KAMAZ” and “UAZ” cars filled with explosives.
71 people died, and 640 were injured.
On May 12, 2003, in the village of Znamenskoye (Naderechny region of the Republic of Chechnya), a KamAZ truck filled with explosives driven by a woman was detonated.
60 people died, and 197 were injured.
On December 5, 2003, on the Kislovodsk-Mineralnye Vody electric train, when the train was about 1 km from the Essentuk station, a suicide bomber detonated an explosive device with the equivalent of 7 kg of TNT.
47 people died, and 186 people were injured.
On February 6, 2004, an explosion occurred in the train’s second carriage in the section between Avtozavodskaya and Paveletskaya metro stations in Moscow.
41 people died, and more than 200 were injured.
On August 24, 2004, passenger planes flying from Moscow’s “Domodedovo” airport were blown up almost simultaneously in the air of Rostov and Tula regions.
89 people died.
On September 1, 2004, in Beslan (North Ossetia-Alania), militants led by Ruslan Khuchbarov (“Rasul”) took hostage more than 1,100 students of school No. 1, their relatives, and teachers.
334 people died.
On March 29, 2010, a double terrorist attack took place in the Moscow metro: bombs with 2 to 4 kg of TNT equivalent exploded in the trains.
41 people died, and 88 people were injured.
