The shooting of a car with civilians in Grozny

May 19, 2001

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At about 2 p.m. near the grocery market in the 3rd microdistrict of Grozny (not far from the crossroads of the road from the city center to the village of Staraya Sunzha), a white VAZ-2107 car was fired upon from a passing convoy of Russian military. The driver was Luiza Turkoevna Ayubova, born in 1974, head of post office No. 38. She and Tamerlan Taramovich Khakiyev, born in 1986, who was sitting next to her, a student of the 9th grade (lived at the address: Grozny, Staropromyslovsky area,
Mayakovskogo st., 78/117) died.

A certain Julia, a postal worker, managed to jump out of the salon. The military killed her on the road when she shouted to them that she was Russian. The dead returned from warm springs, where they cleaned carpets.

Eyewitnesses of the incident believe that snipers fired at the car. Both Tamerlan Khakiyev and Luiza Ayubova were shot in the head.


From the book "People Live Here"
Usam Baisaev, Dmitry Grushkin, 2006


Photo: Yuri Kozyrev

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