A suicide bombing occurs at a religious festival in the town of Iliskhan-Yurt, in southeastern Chechnya. At least 14 people are killed by the bombing. The attack is apparently an attempt to assassinate Akhmad Kadyrov, the Moscow-appointed chief administrator of Chechnya. Kadryov escaped injury.,{{cite news| url=
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//www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55544-2003May14.html | work=The Washington Post}} {{Dead link|date=October 2010|bot=RjwilmsiBot}}