Over 60 killed in Moscow terrorist attack, death toll may rise
More than 60 people were killed in a terrorist attack at the Crocus City Hall music venue in the city of Krasnogorsk in the Moscow Region, a source in Russia’s Investigative Committee told TASS.
"It has been preliminarily established that the terrorist attack killed over 60 people. Unfortunately, the death toll may rise," the source said.
Investigators, criminalists and experts of the Russian Investigative Committee together with operating units of the Internal Affairs Ministry and the Federal Security Service continue investigative activities at the spot, the source added.
A terrorist attack was carried out at the Crocus City Hall music venue in the city of Krasnogorsk near Moscow on Friday evening. Unidentified gunmen armed with assault rifles went on a shooting spree. An explosion rocked the building, starting a fire.
Eighty people have been taken to Moscow hospitals after a terrorist attack at the Crocus City Hall music venue in Krasnogorsk in the Moscow Region as of 2:00 a.m. Moscow time, according to the list of wounded released by the city’s Health Department. No information was provided on the state of those hospitalized, adds another report.