2005 Nalchik raid
| Battle of Nalchik | |||||||
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| Part of Second Chechen War | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
| Yarmuk Jamaat | |||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
| Saidli Shibzukhov |
Anzor Astemirov Shamil Basayev Ilias Gorchkhanov † |
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| Strength | |||||||
| N/A | 150–300 (officially 217) | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| At least 35 killed (mostly militsiya) | at least 89 killed and 59 suspects on trial | ||||||
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Civilians At least 14 killed and 115 wounded |
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The 2005 Nalchik attack was a raid by a large group of militants on Nalchik (pop. 250,000), in the Kabardino-Balkar Republic (KBR) of southern Russia, on 13 October 2005.
A number of buildings associated with the Russian security forces were targeted. More than 100 people (142 according to official tallies), including at least 14 civilians, were reported to have been killed during the ensuing shooting, which continued into the next day. Many other people were wounded.
After the raid, Arsen Kanokov, the newly appointed president of the KBR, admitted publicly that it could have been triggered at least in part by brutal crackdowns by local police.
According to the Russian news source Agentura, fighting began about 9 AM on the morning of 13 October,. The initial attack included nine targets:
Soon after, a gun store called Arsenal was robbed and three police stations were attacked as well.
An attack on the KBR MVD directorate on fighting the organized crime, one more target, was prevented by pure chance. Public transport shut down across Nalchik, and sporadic fighting continued across the city until at least noon.
At 1:20 pm, the President of Russia's Kabardino-Balkaria republic Arsen Kanokov, announced on Echo of Moscow that several of the attackers been taken alive. He also claimed that all enemy combatants seized so far were members of a radical Islamist group known as Yarmuk Jamaat.Radio Free Europe speculated that the name of this group may be a reference to a 7th-century battle in which Arab forces defeated a Byzantine army.
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