Several people dressed in camouflage suits have started shooting at the Crocus town hall. Washington had warned of an “imminent” attack a few weeks ago.
A group of armed people opened fire in a concert hall in the Russian capital on Friday. Moscowand the More than 60 people have been killed and 115 injuredRussian news agencies report this. He Islamic Stateclaimed responsibility for the attack in a message on Telegram.
The special forces managed to evacuate the building and launched an operation to arrest the five alleged perpetrators of the shooting.
The RT Network indicates that there are currently 115 people hospitalized: 110 adults (60 in serious condition) and five children (one of which is in serious condition). The injured are being treated in hospitals in the cities of Krasnogorsk, Khimki, Dolgoprudny and Odintsovo.
Russian authorities have launched an investigation into what they consider a terrorist attack.
The attack took place at Crocus City Hall, with 6,000 people inside. In addition, one has been registered virulent fire which occupied approximately a third of the building, prompting the intervention of the fire brigade. Emergency teams also moved to the site and managed to rescue a hundred people sheltered inside.
From the first moment, several indications suggested that it was an attack with a large number of victims: more than seventy ambulances arrived outside the building, in images shared on social networks you see several people shooting indiscriminately into the crowd. of the city, Sergei Sobyanin, has spoken of “terrible tragedy” from the first moment.
“Today a terrible tragedy occurred in (…) the Crocus Town Hall. My condolences to the families of the dead,” he wrote on his Telegram channel.
According to sources consulted by the Russian news agency TASS, the shots could have been fired from a machine gun.
The Moscow City Council has done that all mass activities suspended scheduled for this weekend in the Russian capital, while the Civil Aviation Agency has assured that security measures at the airports have been tightened.
The authorities of Ukraine They have distanced themselves from the shooting and assured that in more than two years of war, Kiev “has never resorted to the use of terrorist methods.”
“Ukraine certainly has nothing to do with the shootings and explosions at Crocus City Hall. It doesn’t make sense,” said the chief adviser to the Ukrainian presidency, Mijailo Podoliak, on his official profile on the social network X.
Moscow has not suffered a terrorist act of this severity since a bomb attack in 2011 left 37 dead and 172 injured at Domodedovo International Airport.
Washington notice
This event comes just two weeks after the US Embassy in Moscow warned of one ‘imminent’ risk of terrorist attacks on large concentrations of people in the Russian capital, with its citizens advised to avoid crowds.
US National Security spokesman John Kirby spoke out from Washington and expressed his support for the families of the victims. In addition, he noted that “there is no indication” that Ukraine may have been involved in the shooting.
In this sense, the spokesperson of Russian diplomacy has emphasized that if the US authorities have the disposal to do so information about the event, they must immediately share it with the Kremlinand has accused Washington of focusing on defending the innocence of another country, taking into account the high death toll.
Source: EITB
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