>>4371061Photo shortly after a Moscow building terrorist explosion, 1999. The power of the explosive device was 300kg in trotyl equivalent, 124 people were found dead.
It was one the three notorious house bombings in early 00's in Russia. It's largely speculated that they were planned and made by FSB to boost Putin's ratings on upcoming elections. Aleksandr Litvinenko, one of the journalists who were researching the matter, fled to UK but died because of poisoning.
>>4372085Theoretically the hostages could be saved, if they were taken to hospitals on time and weren't placed on their backs. It's just that the government wasn't interested in it.