Mozdok truck bombing

Mozdok truck bombing
Mozdok is located in Russia
Mozdok
Mozdok
Mozdok (Russia)
LocationMozdok, Mozdoksky District, Russia
Date1 August 2003
around 19:00 (MSK)
TargetMilitary personnel, hospital staff
Attack type
Suicide bombing
WeaponsTruck bombs
Deaths52 - 60[1]
Injured82
PerpetratorsAbu Omar al-Kuwaiti (Al-Qaeda), Magomed Dadaev (the suicide bomber), Magomed Kodzoev
MotiveIslamic extremism,[2] Chechen independence[3]

The Mozdok truck bombing occurred on 1 August 2003, when Chechen militants detonated a truck bomb at the military hospital in Mozdok.

  1. ^ "'No more survivors' in Russia blast". BBC News. 3 August 2024. Retrieved 31 August 2024.
  2. ^ ""Зарема хочет взорваться, чтобы принести пользу исламу"" (in Russian). Kommersant. 7 August 2004. Retrieved 31 August 2024.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference nyt was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

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