Explosion at midnight: 20 years since the attack on Guryanov Street in Moscow
2019-09-08T06:29:09.915Z
On the night of September 8-9, 1999 in Moscow on the ground floor of a nine-story apartment building at 19 Guryanova Street, an explosive device went off. Two entrances were completely destroyed, the constructions of a nearby residential building were deformed, and almost all glasses were knocked out in buildings within a radius of half a kilometer. The victims of the attack were 100 people, 690 were injured or injured of varying severity. The investigation found that an organized group of terrorists led by foreign citizens of Emir Al-Khattab and Abu Umar brought explosives to the capital from the territory of the North Caucasus in trucks in the guise of bags of sugar. Before the tragedy, the militants placed it in a non-residential premises on the ground floor of the house. The power of the explosion was about 350 kg in TNT equivalent.
Source: russiart