The 1990 Tbilisi–Aghdam bus bombing, also known as 1990 Khanlar bus bombing occurred on 10 August 1990, in the vicinity of Khanlar, when an explosive device blew up in a bus 12.5 km away from

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's second largest city,

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Fatalities

The bus with 60 passengers on board was travelling from the Georgian capital of

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to the

i town of

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. Fatalities reports range from 15 to 20. The number of the wounded with various degrees of injuries range from 16 to 30.

Perpetrators

The bombing was allegedly carried out by two ethnic Armenians. Azerbaijan alleged that they were operatives of the possibly non-existent militant organization '' Vrezh''. The organization's debut was the bombing of a Tbilisi-

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bus on 16 September 1989, leaving 5 civilians dead and 27 injured. The two men were Armen Mikhailovich Avanesyan and Mikhail Mikhailovich Tatevosov (Tatevosyan). Azerbaijani security forces claimed to have arrested them before their next plot on the same Aghdam–Tbilisi route, planned for 17 June 1991 was realized. The Supreme Court of Azerbaijan charged and found them guilty in May 1992, sentencing Avanesyan and Tatevosyan to death and 15 years of imprisonment, respectively. Tatevosov was later exchanged for an Azerbaijani hostage in Tartar District of Azerbaijan in May 1992.

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