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This spontaneous attack was unclaimed by the Chechen rebels. Not much is known for sure about Gazuyeva, who became a semi-legendary figure in Chechnya and who at the time of her death was either 18 or 20 years old. On November 29, 2001, Gazuyeva blew herself up with a bundle of hand grenades after she approached a group of Russian soldiers including the general in front of the military commandant"s office (Rus komendatura).
Reportedly, her last words were: "Do you recognize me?" or "Do you still remember me?" to which Gadzhiyev replied: "I have no time to talk to you!" - after the general"s answer, Gazuyeva detonated the grenades hidden under her clothes.
Gazuyeva died instantly and her head blown off several meters away. Gadzhiyev, who was wearing a flak jacket, was critically wounded (reportedly losing both of his eyes and one arm) and died of his injuries days later.
The general"s two bodyguards were also killed in the blast, and two other Russian soldiers were injured. Some reports say one was killed and three were injured, or that three were killed.
The incident was followed by a wave of severe reprisals by federal forces against family of Aiza Gazuyeva and the local population.
Soon after the attack, 72 people were detained in the city of Urus-Martan and some of them were reported to having been "disappeared". One day after the general"s assassination, several people were detained in Urus-Martanovsky District"s village of Alkhan-Yurt and some of them were later found murdered (on December 13, disfigured bodies of several men killed by explosive devices were discovered in Chechnya and later identified as residents of three villages in the Urus-Martan region who had disappeared early in December, including four who were among those detained in Alkhan-Yurt: Lom-Ali Yunusov, his relative Musa Yunusov, Shamil Dzhemaldayev and Aslan Taramov).
