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Moscow bloodshed comes two decades after some of worst attacks in Russia
The shooting attacks in Moscow are the latest in a series of deadly terror attacks in the country since the 2000s.
In 2004, militants from Chechnya and elsewhere took hostages at a school in Beslan in southern Russia.
The militants demanded a withdrawal from Chechnya. Hostages were kept in a gymnasium, and 334 died — half of them children — when gunfire and explosions erupted when it was stormed. Hostages’ families were critical of the rescue operation. Russian prosecutors later cleared authorities.
Two years prior, in 2002, Chechen separatists attacked the Dubrovka Theater in Moscow and took more than 700 people hostage. Russian forces used gas, and 129 hostages died. The attackers were killed.
More recently, in 2017 a suicide bomber from Kyrgyzstan killed 15 people as well as himself in an attack on a St. Petersburg subway. In 2013, two bombers killed a combined 34 people in attacks on a railway station and a trolleybus in Volgograd.
The group Islamic State, also known as ISIS, claimed responsibility for the attacks Friday at the Crocus City Hall venue.
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