Russia: August 31, 2004

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 In Moscow, a women wearing an explosive belt, blew herself up outside a subway station, killing ten and wounding at least fifty. The women was trying to get into the subway station, where the carnage would have been greater, but saw two policemen at the subway entrance and set off her bomb in the crowd outside. The woman was later identified as a Chechen. 

 

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