Dagestan commemorates victims of 1996 Kaspiisk terror act

The city of Kaspiisk (Dagestan) has held a mourning rally in memory of victims of the terror act, committed in the city on November 16, 1996. On that day a multi-storey apartment house was blown up, where frontier guards and their families lived. In total, 68 persons were lost.

The participants of the event, namely, the city officials, servicemen of the Caspian Frontier Guard Detachment and local residents, paid their tribute to the casualties of the terror act by a minute of silence and laid down flowers to the monument, built in the place of the explosion of the apartment house, as reported by the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

The commemoration events were attended by religious leaders - the abbot of the local chapel and Imam of the Caspian Central Mosque.

After the memorial rally, in the club of the frontier guard unit people could watch the documentary of the well-known Dagestan journalist Alik Abdulgamidov "Directed Explosion", devoted to the victims of the terror act.

The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed by the Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office of Dagestan that, although the search of the criminals who committed the act gave no results, the case is not closed yet.