The June 2000 Chechnya suicide bombings were

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s. On June 6, 2000, the 17-year-old Khava Barayeva (relative of Arbi Barayev), accompanied by 16-year-old Luiza Magomadova, drove a truck loaded with explosives through a checkpoint of an OMON base at Alkhan-Yurt in Chechnya. Barayeva detonated her bomb outside the barracks, killing a number of paramilitary police troops (rebels claimed up to 27 were killed, but the Russians claimed only two were killed and five were injured). Another suicide bombing, which killed two OMON troops at a checkpoint leading to the

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base, was carried five days later on June 11 by a former Russian

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Sergey Dimitriyev who had

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and joined the rebels while in captivity.

Sources

Suicide Operations in Chechnya: An Escalation of the Islamist Struggle

External links

Suicide bombers strike in Chechnya

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