Elistanzhi cluster bomb attack occurred on October 7, 1999, in

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, when two Russian

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s dropped several

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s on the apparently undefended mountain village of

Elistanzhi Elistanzhi (, , ''Elistanƶa'') is a types of inhabited localities in Russia, rural locality (a ''village#Russia, selo'') in Vedensky District, Chechnya. Administrative and municipal status Municipally, Elistanzhi is incorporated as Elistanzhi ...

. The bombing killed at least 34 (48 according to some reports) and injured some 20 to over 100 people in the small village, mostly women and children; at least nine children were reportedly killed when one bomb hit the local school. Witnesses and victims stated that there were no military objectives in the village prior to or at the time of the attack. Representatives of the Russian

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group

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visited Elistanzhi shortly after the bombing and found no evidence of any Chechen separatist military presence in the village.The report on the Observer mission to the zone of the armed conflict
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, October 18, 1999

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VOA Report

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, 10/9/1999
CARPET BOMBARDMENT OF THE ELISTANJI VILLAGE, OCTOBER 7, 1999

, 26.10.1999
The attack on the village of Elistanzhi (7 October)

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, 1 December 1999
Russian Warcrimes in Chechnya, 1

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