Event
Second Chechen War: Grozny OMON fratricide incident
1 Mar 2000 · 43.39° N, 45.51° E
What the records say
- When
- 1 Mar 2000
- Kind
- Event
- Coordinates
- 43.39° N, 45.51° E
- Description
- Second Chechen War: Grozny OMON fratricide incident.
Placed at the coordinates of the event it links, Grozny OMON friendly fire incident.
Grozny OMON friendly fire incident
2000 incident in Chechnya
The Grozny OMON friendly fire incident took place on March 2, 2000, when an OMON unit from Podolsk, supported by paramilitary police from the Sverdlovsk Oblast in armored vehicles, opened friendly fire on a motorized column of OMON from Sergiyev Posad, which had just arrived in Chechnya to replace them.
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