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The bloodiest attack in decades... Details of the "Crocus" attack in Moscow

 The bloodiest attack in decades... Details of the "Crocus" attack in Moscow


The day before yesterday, gunmen carried out a bloody attack on the "Crocus" concert hall in the suburb of Krasnogorsk, northwest of the Russian capital Moscow, killing at least 143 people and injuring around 152, according to the Russian Investigative Commission.



The bloodiest attack in decades... Details of the "Crocus" attack in Moscow


The Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack, according to accounts posted on social media the organization usually uses.

Below are the most notable circumstances and details of the attack:

Attack scene

  • The attack occurred at a concert hall in the Crocus shopping center, west of the sprawling capital of Moscow, home to around 12 million people.
  • The center is located in Krasnogorsk, approximately 20 kilometers west of the presidential residence (Kremlin) and along the Moscow Ring Road.
  • The center's concert hall opened in 2009 and is a popular entertainment venue with a capacity of 6,200 people.
  • Former US President Donald Trump once hosted the Miss Universe pageant in the venue.

Attack details

  • The attack began Friday evening, as fans were settling down for a sold-out gig by Picnic, a prominent Soviet-era rock band.
  • Five men in military uniform entered the concert hall and opened fire on those inside.
  • An eyewitness, Dave Primov, told The Associated Press that chaos ensued from the shooting.
  • Primov: There was a hail of bullets. We all got up and tried to move towards the hallways. Panic started and everyone ran and jostled. Some fell and others trampled them.
  • Russian investigators said at least 143 people were killed and more than 152 others injured in one of the worst attacks the country has seen in decades.
  • The attackers threw explosives that sparked a massive fire that at one point covered an area of up to 12,900 square meters, according to Russian news agency Interfax.
  • Graphic videos posted on social media showed the militants firing repeatedly as they entered the building, shooting people at point-blank range.
  • Another video clip showed a man in the lobby saying the attackers had set it on fire. Helicopters responded to extinguish the fire from the air, while firefighters battled the flames from the ground. The fire was eventually brought under control on Saturday morning.
  • The Emergency Situations Ministry said firefighters helped around 100 people escape through the basement of the building, while rescue operations also began for those trapped on the roof.
  • The members of the Picnic group remained unharmed and were safely evacuated, the TASS news agency said.


Hunt the bushwhackers

Russia's Investigative Committee, the government's top felonious disquisition agency, opened a" terrorist" disquisition into the attack, and the National Guard was among the units stationed to hunt for the zealots.

Nikolai Patrushev, clerk of the Russian Security Council and main supporter of President Vladimir Putin The attack in Moscow shows the extent of the terrorist trouble to Russia. 

Politician Alexander Khenshtin, citing" primary information" At least two suspects were arrested in the Bryansk region, about 340 kilometers southwest of Moscow, after an auto chase. The other suspects fled into a nearby timber and are being pursued.


The Kremlin didn't incontinently condemn anyone for the attack, but some Russian politicians were quick to shift the blame to Ukraine.
Mykhailo Podolyak, counsel to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, denied Ukraine's involvement."


Ukraine has now resorted to terrorist styles. In this war, everything will be decided only on the
battleground," he wrote on the X website.

ISIS adopts 

The Islamic State of Khorasan Province, the group's Afghan chapter, claimed responsibility for the attack in a statement released by its Amaq news agency.

Amaq said its fighters did so and attacked Moscow cities, killing and wounding hundreds of people and
causing great destruction before retreating unscathed to their bases.

Russia has reported several incidents involving ISIS this month, with Russian intelligence saying on March 7 that it had baffled an ISIS attack on a temple in Moscow.

The United States said it had also advised of the growing trouble posed by" crazies" with imminent plans to attack" large gatherings" in Moscow, and it participated in that conclusion with the Russians. AU.S. functionary said late Friday that Washington had intelligence information attesting that ISIS had claimed responsibility for the attack on Crocus City Hall. 


Experts say the association has opposed Putin in recent times.
ISIS- --K has concentrated on Russia over the once two times and has frequently blamed Putin in its propaganda,  said Colin Clark of the Soufan Center, a Washington- -grounded exploration group.
ISIS- -K views Russia as complicit in conditioning that routinely persecutes Muslims, †said Michael Kugelman of the Washington, D.C.- grounded Wilson Center. 


What did Putin say?

All those responsible for the Moscow attack will be linked and penalized. He added all perpetrators and organizers of this crime will inescapably be penalized fairly»
No matter who they are or who led them, we will identify and discipline whoever is behind this terrorist attack.

The bushwhackers tried to flee to Ukraine.

primary information has shown that some people in Ukraine are willing to let them cross the Russian border.
Sunday was declared a public day of mourning

former attacks targeting Russia? 


In October 2015, a lemon planted by ISIS exploded on a Russian airliner over the Sinai desert, killing all 224 people on board, most of them Russians returning from a holiday in Egypt.

The country was also shaken by a series of deadly attacks in the early 2000s.
In September 2004, around thirty Chechen fighters seized an academy in Beslan, in southern Russia, and took hundreds of people hostage. 


The siege ended two days later in a massacre, with further than 330 dead, nearly half of them children.
In October 2002, Chechen fighters stormed a theater in Moscow and took around 800 people in the theater hostage.
Russian special forces launched an internee deliverance operation two days later, first subduing the
bushwhackers with anesthetic feasts.
Some 41 Chechens were killed, along with 129 hostages, most from the goods of the gas. 





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