2006 Moscow market bombing | |
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![]() Cherkizovsky Market in 2008 | |
Location | Moscow, Russia |
Coordinates | 55°48′00″N 37°45′09″E / 55.80000°N 37.75250°E |
Date | August 21, 2006 |
Target | Immigrant market |
Attack type | Time bombing, right-wing terrorism |
Weapons | TNT |
Deaths | 13 |
Injured | 47 |
Perpetrators | The Saviour |
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The 2006 Moscow market bombing occurred on August 21, 2006, when a self-made bomb with power of more than 1kg of TNT exploded at Moscow's Cherkizovsky Market, frequented by foreign merchants.[1] In 2008, eight members of the racialist organization The Saviour (Спас) were sentenced for their roles in the attack.[2]
Many traders at the market are from Asia and the Caucasus. As of October 3, 2006, 13 persons were confirmed dead: six citizens of Tajikistan, three citizens of Uzbekistan, two citizens of Russia, a citizen of Belarus, and a citizen of China. Eight people died at the scene, two in the hospital on the same day as the bombing, and three at a later date. The last person to die from the bombing was a man who was a citizen of Tajikistan, who died on September 28, 2006, in a hospital.[3]