A total of 145 people were injured in the attack at the Crocus City Hall on the western edge of Moscow.
More than 60 people have been killed and 145 others were injured after assailants opened fire at a large concert hall in Moscow before setting fire to the venue.
A US intelligence official told The Associated Press that American agencies had learned the group’s branch in Afghanistan was planning an attack in Moscow and had shared the information with Russian officials. Some Russian news reports suggested more victims could have been trapped by the blaze that erupted after the assailants threw explosives.
Guards at the concert hall did not have guns, and some could have been killed at the start of the attack, Russian media reported.Some Russian news outlets suggested the assailants fled before special forces and riot police arrived. Noting that the IS statement cast its claim as an attack targeting Christians, Aymenn Jawad al-Tamimi, an expert on the terrorist group, said it appeared to reflect the group’s strategy of striking wherever they can as part of a global attempts to “fight the infidels and apostates everywhere”.
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