Klintsevich: two survivors of the terrorist attack at the Kotlyakovskoye cemetery in Moscow were saved by the accident they moved away from the general group of people who had gathered there to examine the tombstone. On Wednesday, November 10, the leader of the Russian Union of Afghan Veterans Franz Klintsevich told Lente.ru about this.
The terrorist attack at the Kotlyakovskoye cemetery was committed 25 years ago, on November 10, 1996. The bomb exploded on the grave of Mikhail Likhodey, head of the Russian Fund for the Invalids of the War in Afghanistan, who was killed in 1994. At that moment, a memorial service was being held at the cemetery, at which many people gathered.
“Not long before that, I broke my leg and lay at home in a cast. My assistant Volodya went there from us. Suddenly, he and a friend saw a tombstone – there was the name and surname of their old friend who died in Afghanistan. No one knew where his grave was. They were amazed by this and moved away from the general group: at that moment there was an explosion. This is how the late comrade saved his life, “Klintsevich said.
Earlier it became known that the fate of Mikhail Smurov and Andrei Anokhin, the perpetrators of the terrorist attack at the Kotlyakovskoye cemetery in Moscow, developed differently after the verdict in a high-profile case. As a result of the explosion of the bomb planted by them, the widow of Mikhail Likhodey, as well as 13 of his other relatives and friends, died. Valery Radchikov, Likhodey's predecessor as head of the fund, was accused of organizing the attack. However, he was acquitted by the court, and in 2001 he died in a car accident.