Launching a rocket into a residential building, shelling a train and illegally detaining a passenger

May 23, 2001

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On the night of May 23, in the Staropromyslovsky district of Grozny, Antonina Shepeleva, born in 1928, was killed, living at the address: Zhigulevskaya st., 10, apt. 24. Things in her apartment were scattered in disarray. Perhaps the criminals entered here for the purpose of robbery. In the morning of the next day, officers of the VOVD of the district arrived at the scene. After a formal inspection of the apartment of the murdered woman, they left, promising the tenants of the house that
employees of the Ministry of Emergency Situations will arrive with a corpse. Antonina Shepeleva had no relatives, and there was no one to bury her. Nevertheless, no one was sent to look after the woman's body either on that day or on subsequent days.

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In the village of Tsotsin-Yurt, Kurchaloy District, three people were killed and four more were wounded by a rocket explosion. That evening at Suliman Said-Eminovich Aliyev, born in 1965, who lives near
cemetery on the outskirts of the village, was visiting neighbor Ali Khayabievich Shadidov, born in 1951, together with his wife. The men were watching TV. Together with them, the three-year-old daughter of the owner of the house remained in the room. His wife Liza and two other children - a girl and a boy, respectively, four and five years old, together with a guest, went to drink tea in the garage, where there was a room adapted for the kitchen.

Around 18.30 the villagers saw a low-flying rocket. After some time, she got into the Aliyevs' house and exploded. The Tsotsin-Yurts, who ran to the site of the explosion, saw the head of Ali Shadidov among the parts of the destroyed building and property scattered around the yard. The owner of the house was still alive and died later on the way to the hospital. The girl who remained with the men lay dead on the sofa in the broken room.

The wives of the victims, as well as two other children who were with them in the garage, received multiple shrapnel wounds.
Residents of Tsotsin-Yurt, talking about the tragedy, mention the strange events that preceded it. Thus, Muskhan Vakhaevich Dachaev, born in 1973, recalled that on May 23 in the morning along Shosseinaya Street, Russian military men arrived at the BMP. They called out Suliman Aliyev, who was standing in the courtyard, and asked if he knew who was guarding the “ziyarat”. He replied that he did not know. At about 4 p.m., an armored personnel carrier drove up to the man's house. The servicemen who arrived on it were interested in the same thing, but before leaving, for some reason they examined the yard.

On May 24, employees of the Russian law enforcement agencies arrived at the scene of the tragedy. What department they represented is unknown. According to local residents, after a few questions about what happened, they collected fragments of the exploded rocket and left.

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On the stretch between Khankala and the village of Dzhalka, Gudermes district, in the area of the Argun elevator, the Russian military, firing from armored vehicles, stopped the Grozny-Gudermes commuter train. Then Amruddi Bisinaev (Bisineev), a resident of Dzhalka, born in 1970, who worked as a signalman at the base in Khankala, was removed from it and taken away in an unknown direction. The military did not explain the reasons for the detention.

Despite the fact that the prosecutor's office of the Grozny (rural) district opened a criminal case No. 19111 under Art. 127 p. 2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“illegal detention”) of July 14, 2001, nothing is known about the further fate of this person.

From the book "People Live Here", Usam Baisaev, Dmitry Grushkin, 2006