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Two additional bombers (Isidor Koshkin and Vlasiy Volodin), also wearing suicide vests, targeted civilians attending the annual Winter Harvest Market in Stefan Gurkovsky Square. At 7:04 pm, after the explosions at the metro station, the bombers detonated their vests simultaneously near the concert stage and the food vendors. Emergency services were quickly dispatched and began arriving at 7:09 pm.
Kostya Kuzmin was near the square and intended to target first responders at the triage center established by paramedics. He began approaching but "got cold feet" and left the scene. He dumped his vest in an alleyway and fled the city. The bomb was found by police and detonated by controlled explosion. Kuzmin would later be apprehended four days later by officers of the [[Volkian Federal Police]] while trying to board a flight out of country.
==Suspects==
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A total of six attackers were involved, with four dying in suicide suicide bombings, one was arrested in the minutes after the attack, and another was arrested in the weeks after. All six were confirmed to be members of Yarkiye, and Yarkiye's leadership was implicated in interviews with Kostya Kuzmin. They were identified and named as:
*Isidor Koshkin: aged 32. Koshkin was one of the attackers that targeted Stefan Gurkovsky Square. He was considered a fanatical believer in Lukyan Yolkin's teachings, and had previously been arrested and convicted for an attempted robbery of a currency exchange in 1993. He joined Yarkiye in 1997.
*Vlasiy Volodin: aged 26. Volodin also targeted the Square, successfully detonating his vest. He previously had no criminal history but had been dishonorably discharged from the Volkian Air Force in 2001. Volodin joined Yarkiye in 2002.
*Kostya Kuzmin: born March 4, 1984. Kuzmin assisted Koshkin and Volodin in the suicide bombings at the square, but failed to detonate his bomb. He was arrested by federal
*Dmitry Bychkov: aged 27. Bychkov was introduced to Yarkiye through his parents, who were members of Yolkin's first church before his expulsion from the [[Lunarism|Lunarist Church]]. They followed and joined Yarkiye in 1994. Bychkov allegedly was one of the first to volunteer for the attacks; he successfully targeted the Stefan Gurkovsky metro station.
*Iosif Knyazev: aged 31. Knyazev targeted the metro station with Bychkov and Tereshchenko. He was convicted of battery with a deadly weapon in 1994 and was first introduced to religious fanaticism in prison. Upon release, Knyazev found and joined Yarkiye in 2002.
*Vanya Tereshchenko: born November 1, 1983. Tereshchenko assisted Bychkov and Knyazev with the bombings at the metro station. His suicide bomb partially detonated, causing critical injury to himself and minor injuries to those around him. He joined Yarkiye in 2005 and allegedly believed in Yolkin's teachings fanatically. He was arrested and transported to the hospital for his injuries, where he survived.
===Investigation===
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