The explosion of a residential building in Kaspiysk (1996)

The explosion of a residential building in Kaspiysk is a terrorist attack that occurred on November 16, 1996 in Kaspiysk ( Dagestan ), when a 9-storey residential building was blown up.

The explosion of a residential building in Kaspiysk (1996)
Elimination of the consequences of the explosion
Overview Information
Place of attack
date	November 16, 1996 2:10 ( Moscow time )
Attack mode	Explosion
Weapons	Explosive
Dead	67
Wounded	39

The explosion occurred at 2 hours and 10 minutes in the house number 58 on Lenin Street. The main residents of the blown-up house were families of servicemen of the Caspian border detachment of the North Caucasus border district. The power of the bomb, according to various estimates, was 30-150 kg of TNT. As a result of the explosion, the entire building was damaged, one of its sections was completely destroyed. Under the rubble were 106 people. 67 of them died, 39 people managed to save.

According to the newspaper " Izvestia " (05.13.2002), 64 people were killed, including 20 children, 17 women, 15 border guard officers, 2 conscripts, 2 relatives who came to visit the border guards. The rest of the dead are local residents ^[1] .

November 19, 1996 in Russia was declared the day of national mourning for the dead.

The FSB Directorate for Dagestan initiated a criminal case under the article "terrorism".

The main version of the investigation: “revenge on border guards by criminal structures, allegedly frontier officers refused to smugglers to open a channel on the border with Azerbaijan to transport a large batch of weapons or drugs” ^[2] .

In November 2003, the press service of the investigation department of the FSB for the North Caucasus reported that the case is now suspended, although the search for terrorists continues ^[2] .