Moscow Attack : Over 60 Killed at Crocus City Hall in Moscow, ISIS claims responsiblity

One of the deadliest terror attacks ever occurred in Moscow, the capital of Russia on friday night when gunmen opened fire in a music hall, leaving at least 60 people dead and 100 injured. International media outlets have reported that automatic shooting broke out prior to Piknic’s Moscow concert commencing. In order to avoid the bullets, a large number of individuals immediately hurried towards the roof or basement doors or concealed behind chairs in the hallway. The big attack has been attributed to the Islamic State. In the brief message posted on Telegram, the terror group claimed the responsibility for the incident, as reported by the ISIS affiliated news agency Amaq.

Several attackers opened fire on a gathering near Moscow’s Crocus City Hall on Friday. The attackers, who were disguised in their clothing, burst into the premises, started shooting, and hurled an incendiary device or grenade. The OMON anti-riot squad and the SOBR special police forces were dispatched to the Crocus hall, according to the TASS news agency. Following the attack, about 100 people—including members of the rock group Picnic—were evacuated from the basement of a Moscow performance hall building. The Russian foreign ministry posted on Telegram that “this heinous crime must be condemned by the entire world community!” Although the incident was deemed “terrible” by the US administration, there was no apparent evidence linking it to the conflict in Ukraine. Two weeks prior to the incident, the US embassy warned that “extremists” would target large gatherings in Moscow, including concerts.

A representative for the EU stated that the organization is “shocked and appalled by the reports of a terrorist attack in the Crocus City Hall in Moscow.” “These horrific photos from Moscow tonight. Our thoughts are with the injured and the victims, as well as with the people of Russia,” the French foreign ministry stated on X. Mykhailo Podolyak, the presidential adviser for Ukraine, stated on Friday that there was no connection between Kyiv and the gunman’s attack on a Moscow concert hall on Friday. “With the Russian regular army and the Russian Federation as a nation, we are engaged in a full-scale, all-out war. And in the end, everything will be resolved in combat,” stated the presidential advisor for Ukraine. The attack took place a few days after a well planned electoral landslide by President Vladimir Putin solidified his hold on power.

On March 3, Russian authorities declared that an operation in Ingushetia, a small republic in the Caucasus with a majority of Muslims, had resulted in the deaths of six suspected Islamic State members. When Russia was fighting separatists in the Chechnyan territory in the early 2000s, the country was rocked by a string of fatal terror strikes. About eight hundred people were held captive by Chechen extremists in a Moscow theater in October 2002. After the facility was seized by Russian special forces two days later, 129 hostages and 41 Chechen fighters lost their lives, the majority as a result of the narcotic gas that the Russian forces used to subdue the militants.

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