11 people reportedly detained in connection with attack
At least 11 people have been detained in connection with yesterday’s attack, including four people directly involved, the Kremlin said.
Alexander Bortnikov, director of Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) informed Putin of the detentions, it said.
Bortnikov also updated the Russian president on the FSB’s efforts to identify the accomplices of those who carried out the attack.
Death toll rises to 93, expected to increase
Russia’s Investigative Committee said this morning that the number of people confirmed dead in last night’s attack has risen to 93, and said “the death toll will rise further.”
According to preliminary data, the causes of death were gunshot wounds and “poisoning by combustion products,” the Investigative Committee said.
Three children among those killed, state media reports
Three children were among the more than 60 people killed in yesterday’s attack at Crocus City Hall, Russian news agency RIA Novosti reported, citing the Russian Ministry of Health.
Officials have warned that the death toll connected to the deadly incident may increase as the investigation continues.
Moscow bloodshed comes two decades after some of worst attacks in Russia
The shooting attacks in Moscow are the latest in a series of deadly terror attacks in the country since the 2000s.
In 2004, militants from Chechnya and elsewhere took hostages at a school in Beslan in southern Russia.
The militants demanded a withdrawal from Chechnya. Hostages were kept in a gymnasium, and 334 died — half of them children — when gunfire and explosions erupted when it was stormed. Hostages’ families were critical of the rescue operation. Russian prosecutors later cleared authorities.
Two years prior, in 2002, Chechen separatists attacked the Dubrovka Theater in Moscow and took more than 700 people hostage. Russian forces used gas, and 129 hostages died. The…
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