Mozdok truck bombing | |
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Part of Terrorism in Russia and Islamic terrorism in Europe | |
Location | Mozdok, Mozdoksky District, Russia |
Date | 1 August 2003 around 19:00 (MSK) |
Target | Military personnel, hospital staff |
Attack type | Suicide truck bombing |
Weapons | Truck bombs |
Deaths | 52 - 60[1] |
Injured | 82 |
Perpetrators | Abu Omar al-Kuwaiti (Al-Qaeda), Magomed Dadaev (the suicide bomber), Magomed Kodzoev |
Motive | Islamic 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.
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