 On the night of September 4, as the federal forces were wiping out the last bastions of resistance in the Kadar region, a car bomb destroyed a military housing building in the Dagestani town of Buynaksk, killing 64 people, the first in a wave of Russian apartment bombings.On the morning of September 5, Chechen rebels launched a second invasion into the lowland Novolakskoye region of Dagestan seizing the border village of Tukhchar, this time with a larger force numbering 200 fighters led by Umar Edilsultanov.Several Russian and Dagestani troops were executed on the way as they captured the village.