A woman mourns at a makeshift memorial, in front of the Crocus City Hall, a day after a gun attack in Krasnogorsk, outside Moscow, on March 23, 2024. (Photo by Olga MALTSEVA / AFP)
Russia is reeling from a mass shooting and blaze at a Moscow rock concert, which the government has labelled a “terrorist attack”.
Here AFP looks back at previous attacks on the city in the past 25 years.
A bomb blast in the early hours of September 13, 1999 at an eight-storey apartment building in southeast Moscow kills 118 people.
The attack was one of five on apartment buildings that left a total of 293 people dead over a two-week period in Moscow and southern Russia
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Moscow blames the attacks on separatist “terrorists” from the mainly Muslim North Caucasus republic of Chechnya.
President Vladimir Putin uses the attacks to justify launching a campaign to crush a separatist insurgency in Chechnya.
A group of 21 male and 19 female Chechen rebels storm Moscow’s Dubrovka theatre on October 23, 2002 during a musical and take more than 800 people hostage.
The standoff with security forces lasts two days and three nights.
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It ends when the security forces inject gas into the theatre to overpower the attackers and then storm it. A total of 130 hostages are killed. Most died by choking on the gas.
On July 5, 2003, two female suicide bombers, identified by Russia as Chechen separatists, blow themselves up during a rock concert at the Tushino airfield near Moscow, killing 15 people and injuring around 50 others.
Around 20,000 fans had come to hear some of Russia’s top bands at the annual Krylya (Wings) festival.
On February 6, 2004, a little-known Chechen group detonates a bomb in a packed Moscow subway during morning rush hour, killing 41 people.
On March 29, 2010, another two female suicide bombers blow themselves up on the Moscow subway.
Forty people are killed in the attacks, one of which targets Lubyanka station, beside the headquarters of the FSB intelligence services.
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The two bombers were from the volatile North Caucasus region of Dagestan.
The Caucasus Emirate group of Chechen rebel leader Doku Umarov claims responsibility.
On January 24, 2011, a suicide bomber strikes in the arrivals hall of Moscow Domodedovo international airport, killing 37 people.
The Caucasus Emirate group claims responsibility for the attack.
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