“KamAZ” with explosives was blown up in Grozny

In the Staropromyslovsky district of Grozny, on Tikhaya Street, which is located next to the Staropromyslovskoye Shosse, at 16:20 Moscow time there was an explosion of high power.

The explosion partially brought down the building of the territorial administration of the Ministry of Justice in the Chechen Republic. As a result of the explosion, a funnel was formed with a depth of four to five meters and with a diameter of up to six meters.

Killed and wounded

As a result of the terrorist attack in the center of Grozny, according to preliminary data, thirty -four people were injured . This was announced by the chief physician of the first clinical hospital of Grozny Abdul Ismailov told Interfax.

“Among the victims of 17 employees of the 9th city hospital,” said Ismailov. “Employees of the Chechen department of the Spetsstroymontazh trust, the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of the Republic, as well as several employees of the government protection complex, were also injured.

"Among the seriously wounded there is a three -month -old girl who is currently in intensive care," said the head physician.

According to the Ministry of Health of the Chechen Republic, as a result of the explosion at the building of the operational-search bureau number 2, 15 civilians were injured in the center of Grozny.

The wounded were delivered to the 9th city hospital Grozny. “All the victims were near the scene of the explosion, some of them drove past in cars,” the representative of the Ministry of Health added. He did not specify the state of the victims, noting that "they were injured in varying severity."

Despite the fact that the explosion thundered at a distance of more than 300 meters from the 9th city hospital, all glass was knocked out on the western side of the five-story building, the frames were torn out, Ismailov noted.

Most of the wounded medical care was provided in place. There are several ambulances at the scene. Persons who received severe injuries are delivered to city hospitals.

“The number of victims is likely to be much larger,” said the prosecutor of Chechnya Kravchenko.

Meanwhile, according to AFP, at least six law enforcement officers were killed . According to the Ministry of Health of Chechnya, no one in the renunciation of the terrorist attack except terrorists died.

“As a result of the explosion, five collection employees were tangented,” the prosecutor said.

The Southern Regional Administration of the Ministry of Emergencies reported that four people were hospitalized.

The police officers who were at the checkpoint, as well as passers -by, drivers and passengers of cars driving along the street at the time of the explosion, received slight wounds.

Three servicemen who served in the post near the complex of buildings of the Chechnya operational-search bureau received a contusion.

A truck was blown up in the center of Grozny. It is still unclear - "KAMAZ" or "Ural"

According to the prosecutor of Chechnya, the KAMAZ car filled with a large amount of explosives is blown up . According to him, the explosion thundered 50 meters from the building of the Chechnya Ministry of Internal Affairs and 150 meters from the RUBOP building. The buildings did not collapse, but there are “partial damage,” the prosecutor said. Without reaching the building, the truck crashed into the fence and exploded.

Meanwhile, Khamid Adaev, deputy head of the Chechen Ministry of Internal Affairs, said that the blown up car was the Ural brand.

“The truck moved towards the complex of government buildings, but exploded without reaching them,” Adaev said.

According to preliminary data, the undermining of explosives in the KamAZ occurred involuntarily , most likely, as a result of a concussion on the irregularities of the road. Or the truck could not go around one of the concrete fences and, having hit him, exploded.

Boris Gryzlov claims that the car was destroyed and the attack was prevented .

The terrorists who were in KAMAZ died.

The power of the explosion was about 1.5 thousand kg in TNT equivalent.

"All this can be compared with the terrorist attack in the village of Znamenskaya, when the terrorists undermined the car, without reaching the building of the UFSB of the Nadereych region," Kravchenko said.

Pieces of metal from an blended car scattered over 300 meters within a radius, into the courtyards of administrative buildings and on the Staropromyslovsky highway. In the windows of buildings located in a large radius from the scene of the explosion, glass is broken.

The buildings of the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Economy were also affected by the explosive wave.

The operational-investigation team is currently establishing whether people were in the truck, or it was undermined remotely.

Law enforcement agencies also find out how terrorists managed to leave the car with explosives in one of the most protected Zones of the Terrible.

As Kravchenko said, uninhabited houses in the residential sector were partially destroyed on the adjacent street of Tasuev. Experts of the Ministry of Emergencies disassemble the rubble to find out if there were victims there.

According to the representative of the city hall, the explosion occurred 50 meters from the turn to the complex of government buildings in Grozny, near the building of the 6th RUBOP department, which was engaged in the fight against organized crime. According to the representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, if the car drove another 30 meters, nothing would have left of the building.

“The building of the operational -search bureau, the former RUBOP building,” said Kravchenko. “The power of the explosion said is comparable to thundering in December last year in the same place.”

“This is definitely a terrorist attack,” the prosecutor of Chechnya said.

The explosion place is located about 300 meters from the complex of government buildings, Interfax reports.

By its capacity, the explosion can be compared with the terrorist attack on December 27 last year at the Government House in Grozny, Kravchenko noted. “However, this time the explosion was directed towards dilapidated residential buildings in which there were almost no people,” he said.

The Republican Office of the FSB is also sure that today's explosion in Grozny "was not the result of a focused action of militants." According to the head of the press service of the FSB for the Chechen Republic, Denis Vyazemtsev, "according to the preliminary version, in the car in which several militants were traveling, explosives detonated." “Thus, most likely, we are talking about the planned but failed terrorist attack,” he added.

Currently, the forces of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the ambulance are pulled to the scene. The head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Alkhanov, other heads of law enforcement agencies, went to the place.

According to him, as a result of the attack, none of the civilians died.

On the fact of the explosion near the RUBOP building in Grozny, a criminal case has been instituted. This was reported today in the prosecutor's office of Chechnya. They noted that the case was opened under Articles 205 and 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (terrorism and attempted murder).

(According to the same scheme, in December 2002, the house of the Chechnya government was blown up).

Shots from the video made by Basayev's people during the explosion of the Government House

The chronology of terrorist attacks using loaded explosives of vehicles

The representative of the Grozny City Hall said that after the explosion, security measures were strengthened in the Chechen capital: "All checkpoints and checkpoints have the task of checking cars."

The movement along the Starotromoslovsky highway is blocked. A territory adjacent to the building of the former RUBOP is taken under the enhanced protection.

The truck was blown up by the Shahids - a man and a woman. Their bodies are found

Another large terrorist attack in the center of Grozny was committed by suicide bombers. This was stated "Interfax" on Friday, Deputy Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation Sergey Friedinsky.

"At the moment, the investigation is inclined to the fact that there were shahids in the cabin of KamAZ, filled with a large amount of explosives," Friedinsky said.

According to him, the force of the explosion was powerful enough, as the resulting funnel is indicated by a width of six and four meters deep.

At the place of the explosion in the center of Grozny, fragments of the bodies of terrorists-suicide bombers were discovered.

“We are talking about the remains belonging to a woman and a man,” Vladimir Kravchenko, prosecutor of Chechnya, told Interfax on Friday.

"A passport was found on the spot in the name of a resident of Dagestan, born in 1984," the prosecutor said, without naming the surname indicated in the document.

Gryzlov said that the attack was prevented

A large terrorist attack was prevented on Friday in a formidable day on Friday, the Minister of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation Boris Gryzlov said.

"This afternoon, a terrorist attack was prevented, which the criminals tried to carry out in the location of the Krasnodar riot police in the city of Grozny and the operational-search bureau," Boris Gryzlov said on Friday to journalists in Rostov-on-Don.

KamAZ, stuffed with explosives, followed the location of our parts. It was found that the car does not intend to stop, and the driver is clearly criminal intentions, ”said Boris Gryzlov. - After that, the car was destroyed. "

“At the same time, the explosives in the truck were detonated. Three local residents and four policemen received fragmentation injuries. There are no dead,” the minister said.

“I believe that the police officers acted decisively and skillfully and were able to prevent the attack similar to the explosion of administrative buildings in Grozny in December last year,” Boris Gryzlov said.

Earlier, Gryzlov said that the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Chechnya is able to take control of the situation in the republic

From July 1, the leadership of the regional operational headquarters to institute constitutional order in Chechnya will be transferred from the FSB to the Ministry of Internal Affairs. This was reported to reporters on Friday the Minister of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation Boris Gryzlov after an operational meeting with the heads of divisions of the internal affairs bodies of the Southern Federal District.

"From July 1, such a program will be carried out. The corresponding instructions have already been given," said Gryzlov.

Boris Gryzlov is convinced that the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Chechnya may take control of ensuring security in the republic. "We came to the conclusion that the work of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Chechen Republic is quite effective, and it can take control of the law enforcement and security in the Chechen Republic," Gryzlov said.

The explosion was dedicated to the meeting of the State Council of Chechnya - Kadyrov

Despite the Terrible terrorist attack committed on Friday in the Staropromyslovsky district, the first meeting of the State Council of the Chechen Republic will be held in the previously appointed time - this Saturday, June 21. This was stated by the acting President Chechnya Akhmad Kadyrov.

He emphasized that "today's explosion is a well -thought -out and prepared action of terrorists and their patrons who have aimed at disrupting the process of political settlement in the Chechen Republic."

"They are trying to intimidate the population with all the monstrous methods, to cause chaos and panic among the civilians in the Republic, to get the outflow of residents from Chechnya," Kadyrov said.

He also emphasized that "in spite of any sorties of terrorists, the elections of the president and parliament of the republic will also be held in the Chechnya constitutions, also in the Chechnya Constitution."

Kadyrov emphasized that, according to the information coming to him from law enforcement agencies, the capacity of today's explosion in Grozny can be compared with the separation of KAMAZ on the territory of the government building on December 27 last year.

According to law enforcement agencies, this is evidenced by the radius of the scatter of fragments of an exploded car, as well as damage in residential buildings and administrative buildings located even at a large distance from the scene of the explosion, he said.

Kadyrov said that "periodically committed terrorist attacks lead to huge human victims, as well as numerous destruction, the elimination of which each time has to distract huge funds."

The head of the republic said that he instructed the Minister of Health of Chechnya Shahid Akhmadov to provide the victims with the necessary medicines and create conditions for their treatment.

Akhmad Kadyrov also obliged the heads of law enforcement agencies to take all the necessary measures to investigate the terrorist attack, establish the perpetrators, and also instructed to determine how it became possible in the area that is considered well protected. "

On December 27, 2002, terrorists in KamAZ and UAZ cars filled with explosives broke into the territory of the Chechen government house in Grozny and blew them in the immediate vicinity of the building. As a result of the attack, more than 80 were killed and more than 170 people were injured.

The attack was carried out by the Riyadus Salihiin group, the leader of which is Shamil Basayev. The direct performers were members of the Chechen family-a 43-year-old father, his 17-year-old son and a 15-year-old daughter. It was they who were in cars that broke through the cordon around the Government House. Father and daughter were in the cabin "KamAZ", the son - in the UAZ car.

On February 25 of this year, the leader of the Chechen militants Shamil Basayev took responsibility for the explosion of the government of the government in Grozny.

Then, photos taken during the attack were published on the site.

On June 7, 2000, in Alkhan-Yurt, the UAZ car, filled with explosives, crashed into the building in which there was a unit of the Omsk riot police. As a result of the attack, two riot police died and five were injured.

On June 11, 2000, at a block depart in the Oktyabrsky district of Grozny, the car driver of a car wandered an explosive device. As a result of the attack, two military personnel were killed, one was wounded.

On July 2, 2000, in Chechnya, the militants made five terrorist acts using heavy trucks "Ural", filled with explosives, which were drivers-suicide drivers. Two terrorist attacks were committed in Gudermes, one more in Novogronzensky, Urus-Martan and Argun. In total, 33 troops were killed, 84 were injured, three were missing.

On December 27, 2002, suicide bombers blew up the house of the Chechnya government in Grozny . Two cars - KamAZ and UAZ, filled with about one ton of TNT, rammed the gate and exploded next to the building. At this time, more than 200 people were in the government of the government. More than 80 people were killed, more than 170 were injured.

On May 12, 2003, in the Chechen district center Znamenskoye , the building of the Federal Security Service and the Administration of the Nadtererchny district was blown up . The KamAZ car loaded with explosives, breaking through the barrier and concrete fence, broke into the territory in which administrative buildings are located. The fighters who guarded the building opened the fire on Kamaz, trying to stop him. But the truck broke through the barrier, and there was a powerful explosion. Then 41 people died, 269 people were injured.