Russia detained four guys on Saturday after it was reported that they had fired shots into a Moscow concert hall, killing 133 people and seriously injuring at least 107 others. The terrorist organisation ISIS has taken credit for the heinous assault. Ukrainian officials, meanwhile, claimed that the strike was not coming from their war-torn nation. Nonetheless, Russian officials assert that the assailants had assistance from Ukraine.
After announcing that 143 people had perished in the shooting, Russian police later claimed that 133 bodies had been discovered after more than a day of searching. In hospitals, 107 individuals are struggling for their lives.
The top updates regarding the terror attack in Russia are listed here:
- Vladimir Putin, the president of Russia, announced that 11 people, including the four gunmen, had been taken into custody. He claimed they made an effort to hide and headed into Ukraine. “They tried to hide and moved towards Ukraine, where, according to preliminary data, a window was prepared for them on the Ukrainian side to cross the state border,” he stated.
- The shooters were apprehended close to the border and had contacts in Ukraine, according to Russia’s FSB security force. Volodymyr Zelenskiy, the president of Ukraine, claimed that Putin and “other thugs” frequently try to place the responsibility elsewhere.
- Andriy Yusov, a spokesman for Ukrainian military intelligence, told Reuters that his nation was not complicit in this act of terrorism. He argued that the country had been fighting the army of the invaders, not the civilian population, in order to defend itself against the Russian invasion.
- Putin promised to punish the attack’s planners and perpetrators in his speech. “We will identify and punish everyone who stands behind the terrorists who prepared this atrocity, this strike against Russia, against our people,” he stated.
- According to the US White House, the US administration reportedly informed Russia of a planned strike in Moscow. On Saturday, Adrienne Watson, a US National Security Council spokesperson, declared that there was “no Ukrainian involvement whatsoever.”
- Some victims with gunshot wounds perished in the massive inferno that broke out when gunmen set the music hall on fire with petrol. In a lavatory, 28 bodies were discovered, and on a stairwell, 14. The Russian media reported seeing mothers holding their kids.
- According to Russian politician Alexander Khinshtein, the attackers fled in a Renault car that the police spotted on Friday night in the Bryansk neighbourhood, some 340 kilometres (210 miles) southwest of Moscow. He claimed there was a car chase when they disregarded instructions to stop. The automobile had a weapon, an assault rifle magazine, and passports from Tajikistan.
- One of the suspects, a young, bearded male, was shown on camera being violently questioned by a roadside and responding to questions in a strong Russian accent. Simonyan, a TV editor, released the video. He claimed to have been taken out of Turkey on March 4 and that, in return for money, he had received instructions via Telegram to attack unidentified individuals.
- According to the Islamic State (ISIS), its militants safely returned to their bases after slaughtering hundreds of people and wreaking havoc. News organisations have been informed by US authorities that there was no cause for the Joe Biden administration to question ISIS’s claim of culpability.
- In a statement released on Saturday, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre stated, “The United States strongly condemns the heinous terrorist attack in Moscow.” “ISIS is a global terrorist threat that needs to be vanquished everywhere.”