Solved case · 2003
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A suicide bombing on Mokhovaya Street near Red Square in Moscow on 9 December 2003 killed six people and injured 14, after a female suicide bomber detonated an explosive belt on a busy street close to the Kremlin.
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Suggest coverage for 2003 Red Square bombingOn 9 December 2003, a suicide bombing occurred on Mokhovaya Street in Moscow, close to the Moscow Kremlin. According to police, a female suicide bomber detonated an explosive belt on the busy street, killing six people and injuring 14 others.
Moscow's mayor at the time, Yuri Luzhkov, reported speculation that the bomber may have intended to target the nearby Moscow City Hall or the State Duma rather than the location where the device was detonated.
According to the subsequent investigation, the suicide bomber was identified as Khadishat Mangerieva (also referred to in some sources as Khedizhi Mangerieva), the widow of Ruslan Mangeriev, a Chechen rebel commander from the Kurchaloyevsky District who had been killed during the Second Chechen War.
One of the people killed in the bombing, Inga (also referred to as Inna) Gizoeva, was at one point suspected by some reporting to have acted as a helper to Mangerieva. Following speculation of this kind, several Russian newspapers subsequently printed apologies to Gizoeva's parents.
Contemporaneous news coverage from BBC News and CNN reported on the bombing at the time it occurred, including reporting on the search for the bomber described in coverage as a "female bomber."
A suicide bomber detonated an explosive belt on Mokhovaya Street in Moscow, near the Kremlin, killing six people and injuring 14.
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Killed in the bombing; also referred to as Inna Gizoeva. Was at one point suspected by some reporting of having assisted the bomber, a suspicion for which several Russian newspapers later printed apologies to her parents.[3]
Identified by Russian investigators as the suicide bomber who detonated the explosive belt in the 2003 Red Square bombing; died in the blast, so was never prosecuted.[3]
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