Helena Merriman
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Appearances Over Time
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And the footage from the time, it's really harrowing.
You see the front of the apartment is peeled off.
One journalist at the time described it as looking like a doll's house.
You can see all the people's clothes and bathtubs inside.
And 94 people are killed in that second bomb.
And this time, because it's Moscow, the story breaks out.
And who are the leading suspects?
After the first two bombs go off, the question everyone's asking is, who did this?
And the answer comes pretty quickly.
People...
Seem pretty sure that it's Chechen militants.
And that's partly because very recently there's been a horrific war between Russia and Chechnya.
It goes back to 1991 when the Soviet Union was falling apart.
You had different states breaking free.
And Chechnya, which is a republic in the south of Russia, wanted it too.
So they declare independence.
But Russia has no intention of letting Chechnya go.
So they sent in the tanks.
There's a very brutal war between 94 and 96.
Thousands killed.