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BEIJING, Sept. 1 (Xinhuanet) -- At least 10 people were killed and more than 50 wounded
Tuesday in a suicide bombing attack outside a Moscow subway station.
An Islamist group on Tuesday claimed responsibility for the bombing and
vowed more attacks, said a statement published on a Web site.
The following are the major terror attacks in Russia in 2004:
Aug. 31 -- At least 10 people were killed and more than 50 wounded in a
suicide bombing attack outside a subway station in Moscow. An Islamist group has
claimed responsibility for the attack.
Aug. 24 -- Two Russian passenger jets crashed almost simultaneously after
taking off from Moscow's Domodedovo Airport, killing all the 90 people on board.
Authorities had blamed terrorists for the twin crashes.
Aug. 21 -- Several people were killed and a few others wounded when rebels
attacked a police station in the capital of Russia's breakaway Chechen republic.
July 26 -- A home-made remotely controlled explosive device went off south
of the Samashki village in Chechnya, killing three people and wounding one.
June 22 -- Heavily armed rebels launched overnight attacks on key points in
Ingushetia killed at least 48. Among those killed were 18 law enforcement
officers, mainly from the Interior Ministry, and 28 civilians. Two rebel
fighters were also killed and another 30 people were injured.
June 4 -- A powerful explosion ripped through a market in the city of
Samara, central Russia, killing at least nine people and wounded dozens of
others.
May 29 -- A bomb blast derailed a section of a passenger train in southern
Russia, but no one suffered serious injuries. Two bombs went off when the train
was traveling from Moscow to Vladikavkaz, capital of Russia's North Ossetia near
Chechnya, and derailed 10 out of the 18 carriages.
May 25 -- At least seven people were injured when a bomb attached to a
lamp-post on a highway in downtown Moscow exploded. The blast occurred while a
Saab car was passing by, injuring at least seven passers-by and smashing windows
in several cars and nearby houses.
May 11 -- Two men were killed in a grenade explosion in a parking lot in
northern Moscow. The hand grenade exploded at the guard booth in the parking lot
and killed the two guards.
May 9 -- At least 14 people were killed and some 40 others injured in an
explosion in the Chechen capital of Grozny. Chechen President Akhmad Kadyrov was
killed in the blast that occurred during a ceremony celebrating the Victory Day
in the Dynamo stadium.
Feb. 10 -- An explosion in the Chechen capital Grozny killed two Chechen employees of
the Russian military and wounded six. The blast occurred outside the Russian
military commandant's office in the city's Lenin district.
Feb. 6 -- An explosion during the morning rush hour aboard a subway train
in Moscow killed at least 30 and injured about 100 others. The blast, in the
second wagon of the train, caused a serious fire in the underground train and
badly damaged the carriage.
Feb. 5 -- At least two people were killed in an explosion in the morning in
the city of Vladikavkaz in North Ossetia, which borders Russia's restive
republic of Chechnya.
Jan. 14 -- Three Russian servicemen, including an officer, diedand a fourth
was seriously wounded when a land mine exploded in the Chechen village of
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