The death toll, after the shooting perpetrated by members of the Islamic State (IS) at the Crocus City Hall auditorium, located in Krasnogorsk, a city near Moscow, has caused at least 60 deaths and more than a hundred injured, sources said. officers.
According to the state agency Tass, the Investigative Committee (IC) of the Russian Federation established that the number of fatalities was feared to increase. “It has been preliminarily determined that more than 60 people died in the terrorist attack. Unfortunately, the death toll may increase,” the official entity said.
In addition to the 2011 attack in which Moscow suffered a terrorist act, when a bomb attack left 37 dead and 172 injured at the Domodedovo international airport, the country has been marked by the impact of three major attacks: in 1999, 2002 and 2010.
Days after Vladimir Putin was named prime minister, a wave of explosions in residential blocks killed more than 300 people in Moscow, Buinaksk and Volgodonsk. The Russian government blamed Chechen terrorists, but there are theories that point to false flag attacks to justify the second Chechen war and boost Putin’s electoral victory.
At least 173 people died, including about 40 assailants, after Russian security forces stormed (photo) a Moscow theater taken over by Chechen terrorists in full performance. Of the more than 850 hostages, a total of 133 died from inhaling a mysterious gas used to facilitate the operation of special groups, in an attack with many unknowns.
Two female jihadist suicide bombers from the Caucasus killed 40 people by exploding bombs at two stations near the Kremlin and the Federal Security Service.