Grozny ballistic missile attack

Grozny ballistic missile attack
Grozny ballistic missile attack
Part of the Second Chechen War
Location	Grozny, Chechnya
Date	October 21, 1999
Target	Various civilian and government/military targets
Attack type	Ballistic missile strike
Deaths	Est. more than 100 instantly
Injured	About 250 to over 400
Perpetrators	Strategic Rocket Forces

The Grozny ballistic missile attack was a wave of Russian ballistic missile strikes on the Chechen capital Grozny on October 21, 1999, early in the Second Chechen War. The attack killed at least 118 people according to initial reports,^[1] mostly civilians, or at least 137 immediate dead according to the HALO Trust count.^[2] Hundreds of people were also injured, many of whom later died.

^ Russians in disarray over Grozny strike, The Guardian, October 23, 1999
^ The October 21, 1999, Cluster Bomb Attack on the Grozny Market, Mennonite Central Committee, 2000 Archived June 30, 2007, at the Wayback Machine

[disarray-1] Russians in disarray over Grozny strike, The Guardian, October 23, 1999

[mcc-2] The October 21, 1999, Cluster Bomb Attack on the Grozny Market, Mennonite Central Committee, 2000 Archived June 30, 2007, at the Wayback Machine

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