Arkhangelsk FSB office bombing
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Location64°32′09″N 40°31′12″E / 64.5359°N 40.5201°E
Arkhangelsk, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia
Arkhangelsk, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia
Date31 October 2018
8:52 AM[1] (Moscow Time)
8:52 AM[1] (Moscow Time)
TargetFederal Security Service
Attack type
Suicide bombing| Arkhangelsk FSB office bombing | |
|---|---|
 The perpetrator entering the FSB precinct before the bombing | |
| Location | 64°32′09″N 40°31′12″E / 64.5359°N 40.5201°E Arkhangelsk, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia |
| Date | 31 October 2018 8:52 AM[1] (Moscow Time) |
| Target | Federal Security Service |
Attack type | Suicide bombing |
| Weapons | acetone peroxide powered Improvised explosive device |
| Deaths | 1 (the perpetrator) |
| Injured | 3 |
| Perpetrators | Mikhail Vasilievich Zhlobitsky[2] |
| Motive | Anarcho-communist terrorism |
The Arkhangelsk FSB office bombing was a suicide bombing that occurred in Arkhangelsk, Russia. On the morning of 31 October 2018, Mikhail Vasilievich Zhlobitsky, a 17-year old tekhnikum student entered the local office of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) and pulled a manually controlled Improvised explosive device from under his clothes and detonated it.[3] He died on the spot and the explosion injured three local FSB officers.[4]
