Explosion in the train Kislovodsk - Mineralnye Vody (December 2003)

EMERCOM employees work at the site of an electric train explosion

The explosion in the Kislovodsk - Mineralnye Vody electric train occurred on December 5, 2003. The suicide bomber detonated an explosive device about a kilometer before the entrance to the Essentuki station. As a result of the attack, 46 people were killed, 170 people were injured. The power of the bomb was 7 kilograms of TNT ^[1] .

Chechen terrorists claimed responsibility for the attack. An explosion in an electric train was one of a series of terrorist attacks in 2003 ^[1] .

According to data for 2009, criminals and customers were not detained.

The Kislovodsk-Mineralnye Vody electric train was already becoming the target of terrorist attacks. September 3, 2003 on the stretch of Podkumok - White Coal, a terrorist (former prefect of the Shatoy district Ibragim Israpilov) laid explosives under the rails. The explosion killed 7 people and about 80 people were injured. In 2004, Israpilov was detained, wrote a sincere confession to commit this terrorist attack and was sentenced to 20 years in a maximum security prison. Sometimes Israpilov is mistakenly considered the perpetrator of this attack ^[2] .