Supian Ependiyev was a veteran correspondent for the independent Chechen weekly Groznensky Rabochy, who was killed while covering a Russian Ground Forces ballistic missile attack on the Chechen capital, Grozny.
[1] On the evening of October 27, 1999, several short-range ballistic missiles hit a crowded outdoor market in central Grozny, killing or wounding hundreds of people, mostly civilians.
Nevertheless, as he was leaving the site, a new round of Scud missiles fell about 200 meters from the bazaar.
Ependiyev suffered severe shrapnel wounds and died in a Grozny hospital the next morning.
[4] The Committee to Protect Journalists protested the death of Supian Ependiyev in an open letter to President of Russia Boris Yeltsin.