Mozdok truck bombing
| Mozdok truck bombing | |
|---|---|
| Location | Mozdok, Mozdoksky District, Russia |
| Date | 1 August 2003 around 19:00 (MSK) |
| Target | Military personnel, hospital staff |
Attack type | Suicide bombing |
| Weapons | Truck bombs |
| Deaths | 52 - 60 |
| Injured | 82 |
| Perpetrators | Abu Omar al-Kuwaiti (Al-Qaeda), Magomed Dadaev (the suicide bomber), Magomed Kodzoev |
| Motive | Islamic extremism, Chechen independence |
The Mozdok truck bombing occurred on 1 August 2003, when Chechen militants detonated a truck bomb at the military hospital in Mozdok.