Azerbaijan marks 14 years since oil academy terror attack

Today (April 30) marks the 14th anniversary of the terrorist attack carried out at Azerbaijan State Oil Academy, the present-day Azerbaijan State University of Oil and Industry.

Caliber.Az recalls that on 30 April 2009, the terror attack was committed in the academy’s second building, in 227 Dilara Aliyeva Street, Baku.

A citizen of Georgia, Farda Gadirov, born in 1980, entered the university building and openeAzerbaijan marks 14 years since Oil Academy terror attackd fire with a Makarov handgun on persons who were in the university at the time. He was going up to each floor (from the first to the sixth floor) and firing indiscriminately. Gadirov killed 12 people and wounded 13; when he reached the sixth floor, he saw that he was surrounded by the police and then, barricading himself in one of the classrooms, he committed suicide.

The indictment noted that Mardun Grigorievich Gumashyan, the orderer, motivated by ethnic hatred, agreed with Georgian citizens of the Azerbaijani nationality Farda Gadirov, Javidan Amirov, Najaf Suleymanov, Nadir Aliyev and others in early 2009 to commit an act of terrorism against Azerbaijanis in Baku.

On August 10, 2010, Nadir Aliyev, Javidan Amirov, and Najaf Suleymanov were sentenced to life imprisonment and Ariz Gabulov to 11 years in prison, according to the decision of the Serious Crimes Court.

The Azerbaijan State Oil Academy was renamed the Azerbaijan State University of Oil and Industry by an order of President Ilham Aliyev on September 3, 2015.