2024-03-22 18:13:53
This Friday (03/22/2024) some unknown persons carried out a shooting during a rock concert in the city of Krasnogorsk, on the outskirts of Moscow, according to police sources informed to local agencies.
The shots with automatic weapons were fired by at least three people wearing camouflage clothing in the Crocus City Hall shopping center, where following the shots an explosion took place and a fire broke out, according to the official RIA Nóvosti agency.
The Federal Security Service (FSB) speaks of dozens of deaths and more than a hundred injured. “Preliminarily, as a result of the terrorist attack at the Crocus City Hall shopping center, there are currently 40 dead and more than one hundred injured,” they detailed.
The mayor of the Russian capital, Sergei Sobyanin, was the first to issue statements indicating that “today in (…) the Crocus City Hall a terrible tragedy occurred. My condolences to the families of the dead,” he wrote on his channel. Telegram.
For its part, the Russian Foreign Ministry attributed what happened to “a bloody terrorist attack.” “The entire international community must condemn this hateful crime!” Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zajarova added on Telegram.
The White House extended its condolences to the victims of the “terrible” shooting and said it is seeking more information. “We are thinking of the victims of this terrible shooting,” National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told reporters. “The images are simply horrible and hard to see,” he added minutes following learning what happened in Moscow.
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