Russia claims to have arrested the alleged perpetrators of the attack that left 116 people dead in Moscow

He Kremlin announced on Saturday that it had arrested eleven people, including “four” attackers, a day after the attack that left at least 116 people dead at a concert hall in Moscowclaimed by the jihadist group Islamic state (HEY).

The director of the Russian security services (FSB) “informed” the president Vladimir Putin from the “arrest of 11 people, including the four terrorists directly involved in the to try”indicated the Russian presidency in a statement.

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The four people were detained in the Bryansk region, on the border with Ukraine and Belarusspecified the Russian Investigative Committee, competent in this type of crimes.

The attack was committed on Friday before a concert by the Russian rock group Picnikin a concert hall Croco City Hallin Krasnogorska northwest suburb of Moscow.

He FSB He stated that the suspects had “contacts” in Ukrainefaced with Russian military intervention since 2022, and planned to flee to this country after the attack, the deadliest since the mid-2000s and which was condemned by the international community.

Russian authorities have not presented any evidence of this alleged link or provided details about its nature.

Ukrainian presidential advisor Mijailo Podoliakdenied the accusation of Russia and wrote on social media “The versions of the Russian special services about Ukraine are absolutely untenable and absurd.”

The jihadist group EI, which Russia who fights in Syria and who is active in Caucasus Russo, claimed responsibility for the attack on Friday and specified that his command had returned “safe and sound to your base”.

The authorities of Moscow They did not comment on this statement and put on has not yet appeared in public. It is not the first time that the ISIS hits the country.

The death toll rose to 115 on Saturday, although it is expected that “increase”, according to the Russian Investigative Committee. The Ministry of Emergency Situations reported, in turn, that a hundred people remain hospitalized.

According to the first elements of the investigation, the people died of “gunshot wounds”And for inhaling the smoke from the fire that broke out after the shooting, the Committee indicated.

The attackers, the investigators specified, used “automatic weapons”And set fire to the building with a“flammable liquid”.

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“Machine gun bursts”

O russian media They began reporting the attack at around 8:15 pm (17:15 GMT).

“Just before the start [del concierto], we hear gusts of machine guns and the terrible scream of a woman. And then lots of screaming.”he told AFP Alexeia music producer who was in the dressing room.

AFP journalists saw on Friday black smoke rising from the roof. The flames engulfed almost 13,000 m2 of the building before firefighters managed to contain them, according to rescue services.

Although the group HEY assumed responsibility for the attack, numerous questions remain.

The United States said on Friday it had warned Russiain early March, about a possible “terrorist” attack in a location in Moscow with “large concentrations” of people, said the spokeswoman for the National Security Council in Washington, Adriano Watson.

On Tuesday, Putin dismissed the warnings, calling them “provocative”.

According to Russian media and deputy Alexander Khinsteinsome suspects originate from Tajikistana Muslim-majority former Soviet republic located in northeastern Afghanistan.

The authorities of this country Central AsiaHowever, they guarantee that “They received information from Russian authorities about the false information currently circulating about the involvement of Tajik citizens”.

Since its independence in 1991, Tajikistan faced a multitude of armed Islamic movements.

The news networks Baza and Mashclose to the security forces, published videos on Telegram in which at least two armed men are seen advancing through the complex’s lobby. Moscow.

In other sequences, corpses are seen and groups of people running towards the exit.

Russian police and special forces continue deployed on Saturday in front of burned roomwhere hundreds of rescue teams picked up the rubble in search of more victims.

The research will take “several days“, reported the governor of the region of Moscow, Andrei Vorobyov.

In the morning, long queues formed in front of some blood donation centers in Moscow, according to images from Russian state media. At some bus stops, posters with the inscription “We are in mourning 03/22/2024″.

Several public events have been canceled in the country, where security measures have also been reinforced.

Source: Elcomercio

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