December 2013 Volgograd Bombings | |
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Part of Insurgency in the North Caucasus and Islamic terrorism in Europe | |
Location | Volgograd, Volgograd Oblast, Southern Federal District, Russia |
Coordinates | 48°42′45″N 44°30′49″E / 48.712498°N 44.513486°E (railway station) 48°44′10″N 44°29′53″E / 48.736090°N 44.498013°E (trolleybus) |
Date | 29 and 30 December 2013 |
Target | Civilians in public transportation |
Attack type | Suicide bombings |
Deaths | 32 (+2 perpetrators): Volgograd-1 station: 18[citation needed] Trolleybus: 16[citation needed] |
Injured | 85: Volgograd-1 station: 44[1] Trolleybus: 41[citation needed] |
Perpetrators | Caucasus Emirate Vilayat Dagestan |
In December 2013, two separate suicide bombings a day apart targeted mass transportation in the city of Volgograd, in the Volgograd Oblast of Southern Russia, killing 34 people overall,[citation needed] including both perpetrators. The attacks followed a bus bombing carried out in the same city two months earlier.