2008 Vladikavkaz bombing

Name: 2008 Vladikavkaz bombing
Start: 2008

2008 CE.

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The 2008 Vladikavkaz bombing took place on a routed taxicab, which was unloading passengers at a market in Vladikavkaz, North Ossetia, Russia on 6 November 2008, killing 12 and injuring 41. The bombing was committed by a female suicide bomber. On 15 November the attack was claimed by the Riyad-us Saliheen Brigade of Martyrs, a unit of the militant Caucasus Emirate group.

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