23 October 2006, 23:52

Investigation of terror acts in "Avtozavodskaya" and "Rizhskaya" Metro stations completed

Investigation of the criminal case has been finished in relation to another group of militants, members of subversive underground movement, with the help of which the leaders of Chechen separatists undertook in 2004 a terrorist attack on Russian authorities, which ended with Beslan tragedy. The "Vremya Novostej" (Time of News) newspaper managed to find out that the materials of the investigation have been delivered to the Moscow State Court, where preliminary hearings will commence tomorrow.

The prisoner's box will be occupied by two militants from the so-called "Karachaev Jama'at" - Maxim Panaryin and Tambij Khubiev, and their supposed accomplice - Murat Shavaev, former employee of the Ministry of Justice, senior justice adviser, the "Gazeta.Ru" informs.

As a result of act of terror at the "Avtozavodskaya" on February 6, 2004, 41 persons died and some 250 more were injured. Under the version of the investigation, the bomb was exploded by suicide bomber Anzor Izhaev, resident of Karachayevo-Cherkessia.

On August 31, 2004, at the "Rizhskaya" Metro station, a woman suicide bomber committed a terror act killing 10 persons including the woman herself and the leader of the so-called "Karachaev Jama'at" Nikolai Kipkeev. About 50 persons were wounded.

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