VOLGOGRAD, March 23 Residents of Kalmykia lay flowers at a spontaneous memorial in the center of Elista in memory of the victims terrorist attack in the Crocus City Hall near Moscow, reports the head of the republic Batu Khasikov in his Telegram channel.
“Kalmykia mourns along with the whole country. Caring citizens bring flowers to a spontaneous memorial in the center of Elista in memory of those who died in yesterday’s terrorist attack in the Moscow region,” Khasikov wrote.
The FSB reported on Friday evening that shooting and fire occurred before a concert at Crocus City Hall in Krasnogorsk near Moscow. According to the latest data from the Russian Investigative Committee, 133 people died. The editor-in-chief of the Rossiya Segodnya media group and the RT television channel Margarita Simonyan reported that the number of victims of the terrorist attack in Crocus has increased to 143.
A correspondent who witnessed the incident reported that at least three men in camouflage and without masks burst into the hall through the stalls, they shot people point-blank and threw incendiary bombs.
According to the FSB central intelligence center, the weapons used by the terrorists at Crocus were prepared in advance in a cache. After the terrorist attack, the criminals tried to escape in a car, moving towards the Russian-Ukrainian border; they intended to cross the border and had relevant contacts on the Ukrainian side. According to the FSB Central Operations Center, as a result of the actions of special services and law enforcement officers, 11 people were detained, including 4 terrorists who were directly involved in the terrorist attack. Four terrorists were detained in the Bryansk region within a few hours of each other. The detainees are currently being transferred to Moscow.
Press Secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov said that Vladimir Putin was informed about the shooting at Crocus in the first minutes, and he constantly receives information through all relevant services about what is happening and about the measures being taken. Then the presidential press service reported that the heads of the FSB, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Investigative Committee and the Russian Guard reported to Putin on the progress of the investigation into the terrorist attack, the head of the Ministry of Emergency Situations — on measures to save people, the head of the Ministry of Health and the governor of the Moscow region — on assistance to the victims.
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