{"id":7275,"date":"2024-03-23T03:08:20","date_gmt":"2024-03-23T03:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/23\/heres-the-latest-on-the-attack-in-russia-2\/"},"modified":"2024-03-23T03:08:20","modified_gmt":"2024-03-23T03:08:20","slug":"heres-the-latest-on-the-attack-in-russia-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/23\/heres-the-latest-on-the-attack-in-russia-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s the latest on the attack in Russia."},"content":{"rendered":"
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Several gunmen opened fire at a popular concert venue on the outskirts of Moscow on Friday, killing at least 40 people and wounding more than 100, Russia\u2019s top security agency said<\/a>, according to state news agencies.<\/p>\n

More than a third of the building, which hosts one of the largest and most popular concert halls in Moscow, was on fire on Friday night, according to Tass, as emergency services tried to rescue people from its roof. <\/p>\n

Three helicopters were dispatched to the scene, the agency reported. An explosion was reported at 9:32 p.m. local time, and RIA Novosti reported that the fire had intensified. The roof near the stage was collapsing at around 10 p.m. local time, RIA Novosti reported.<\/p>\n

There was no report of who might be responsible for the attack, but state media agencies reported that there were up to five perpetrators. Russia\u2019s Investigative Committee, the country\u2019s equivalent to the F.B.I., said<\/a> it had opened a criminal case into a terrorist act and dispatched its investigators to the scene.<\/p>\n

Emergency services said more than 100 people had already been evacuated from the building.<\/p>\n

Videos verified by The New York Times show multiple people holding guns entering Crocus City Hall, a shopping mall and concert venue in Krasnogorsk, a suburb on the northwestern outskirts of Moscow. The videos show people wounded on the ground.<\/p>\n

In videos filmed inside the concert hall, audience members awaiting a performance by the veteran rock band Piknik are heard screaming, and there are repeated gunshots from outside of the hall. Other videos filmed from a highway outside of the building show parts of it on fire producing heavy smoke. <\/p>\n

The Russian news agency TASS said eyewitnesses had reported \u201ckilled and wounded\u201d at the venue, Crocus City Hall, without specifying a number. Some news organizations said on social media that dozens had been wounded and more than 40 were dead, but those figures were not immediately confirmed by the Russian authorities. <\/p>\n

\u201cAt least three people in camouflage burst into the ground floor of Crocus City Hall and opened fire with automatic weapons,\u201d a correspondent for another state news agency, RIA Novosti, reported from the scene. \u201cThere are definitely wounded.\u201d<\/p>\n

RIA Novosti said that a special police unit was working inside the building alongside firefighters. Images posted to social media from the scene showed bodies laid on the ground outside the venue.<\/p>\n

Moscow\u2019s mayor, Sergei S. Sobyanin, said<\/a> that multiple people had been killed and called it a \u201cterrible tragedy.\u201d He said all large events planned for the weekend would be canceled. In St. Petersburg, more than 400 miles from Moscow, shopping centers were also being evacuated, according to the independent outlet Bumaga.<\/p>\n

Shootings are rare in Russia, a country where the state tightly regulates the possession of firearms. One of the deadliest ones occurred<\/a> in 2022, when a gunman killed 18 people and wounded 23 others in a school in the town of Izhevsk. <\/p>\n

On March 7, the U.S. Embassy in Moscow issued a security alert<\/a> warning that its personnel were \u201cmonitoring reports that extremists have imminent plans to target large gatherings in Moscow, to include concerts.\u201d The statement warned U.S. citizens that an attack could take place in the next 48 hours. <\/p>\n

Pro-Kremlin voices seized on the U.S. Embassy\u2019s warning to paint America as trying to scare Russians. On March 19, President Vladimir V. Putin called the statement \u201cobvious blackmail\u201d made with \u201cthe intention to intimidate and destabilize our society.\u201d<\/p>\n

The attack came the same day as 165 missiles and drones attacked Ukraine, constituting what U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Bridget Brink said<\/a> was \u201cthe largest attack against Ukraine\u2019s energy grid since the start of Russia\u2019s war.\u201d<\/p>\n

But there was no immediate indication of any Ukrainian involvement in the Moscow attack, or of the identity of the assailants.<\/p>\n

White House National Security Communications Advisor John Kirby said that there was \u201cNo indication at this time that Ukraine, or Ukrainians were involved in the shooting.\u201d In comments to reporters, he said \u201cI would disabuse you at this early hour of any connection to Ukraine.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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