Death Toll in Moscow Concert Hall Attack Rises to 140

March 27th, 12:00 PM EDT

By NEWSnet Digital Team

Emergency services vehicles outside Crocus City Hall concert hall following a shooting in Krasnogorsk, outside Moscow, March 22, 2024.

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MOSCOW (NEWSnet/AP) — The death toll from last week’s Moscow concert hall attack rose to 140 on Wednesday after another victim died in a hospital, Russian officials said.

That person was one of five still hospitalized in “extremely grave condition,” and the doctors “did everything they could” to save them, Russia’s Health Minister Mikhail Murashko said.

A total of 80 people injured in the attack remain hospitalized, the official added, and 205 others have sought outpatient medical assistance.

The Friday night massacre in Crocus City Hall, a shopping and entertainment venue on the northwestern outskirts of Moscow, was the deadliest terrorist attack on Russian soil in nearly 20 years. At least four gunmen toting automatic rifles shot at thousands of concertgoers and set the venue on fire.

An affiliate of the Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the violence, while U.S. intelligence said it had information confirming the group was responsible. French President Emmanuel Macron said France also has intelligence pointing to “an IS entity” as responsible for the attack.

Russia’s Federal Security Service, or the FSB, said it had arrested 11 people the day after the attack, including four suspected gunmen. The four men, identified as Tajik nationals, appeared in a Moscow court on Sunday on terrorism charges.

Russian officials, however, have insisted Ukraine had a role, claims Kyiv vehemently denies.

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