What the records say
- When
- 3 May 2012
- Kind
- Event
- Coordinates
- 42.98° N, 47.50° E
Placed at the town named in the title of the event it links, Makhachkala.
2012 Makhachkala attack
Suicide bombing incident at Dagestan, Russia
The 2012 Makhachkala attack occurred on 3 May 2012 after two suicide bombers detonated explosive-filled cars near a traffic police checkpoint in Makhachkala, a city and capital in the republic of Dagestan, Russia, killing as many as 40 people. More than 130 others were injured in the blasts, at least 67 of them seriously.
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- Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “attentat à Makhatchkala”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “двойной теракт в Махачкале”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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