Incident Report

On September 8, 1999, at approximately 24:00, Gochiyayev A.Sh., Batchayev Z.A., Saitakov D.F., Abaev Kh.M., and unidentified persons, acting as part of an organized group with the intent of killing the maximum number of people in the nearby multi-story residential buildings No. 19 and No. 17 on Guryanova St. in Moscow and adjacent territory, detonated a high-power improvised explosive device.

The device was located in a non-residential premise on the 1st floor of building No. 19 on Guryanova St., and the detonation was carried out using a delayed-action electric detonator with an electronic timer.

Casualties

As a result of the explosion, the following persons died while in a helpless state (in a state of sleep or sickly state) in building No. 19 on Guryanova St., due to impact from destroyed building structures, fragments of broken glass, fire and smoke, shock and sound waves, secondary projectiles (apartment furnishings where victims were located), and other traumatic factors:

• Ovsyannikov Vyacheslav Borisovich (born 1954): Died from an incised-chopped wound to the abdomen with damage to the liver and large blood vessels (the aorta and the inferior vena cava).
• Ovsyannikova Natalya Fyodorovna (born 1955): Died from combined blunt trauma to the head, torso, and limbs, accompanied by fractures of the bones of the vault and base of the skull with brain contusions, bones of the facial skeleton, the body of the sternum, ribs on the left and right along several anatomical lines with ruptures of the lungs, liver, fracture of the thoracic spine, pelvic bones, fracture of the bones forming the left wrist and ankle joints, leading to acute blood loss.
• Mikhailin Sergey Ivanovich (born 1951): Died from combined body trauma accompanied by a closed non-penetrating traumatic brain injury with hemorrhage into the ventricles of the brain.
• Mikhailina Tatyana Mikhailovna (born 1951): Died from carbon monoxide poisoning.
• Mikhailina Zhanna Sergeevna (born 1975): Died from a closed fracture of the frontal bone with extension to the bones of the base of the skull and with brain contusions leading to its compression and dislocation.
• Mikhailin Aleksandr Sergeevich (born 1983): Died from brain maceration during an open traumatic brain injury.
• Ermolenko Vladimir Vladimirovich (born 1972): Died from shock and blood loss due to combined trauma (explosive trauma) - fractures of the bones of the vault.