Moscow Attack: Russia says four foreign suspects detained as death toll reaches 133
Rescuers has pulled more bodies from the rubble of a Moscow-area concert venue on March 23 as the toll from a deadly attack claimed by the Islamic State militant group reached 133.
Meanwhile, security officials say four suspected gunmen had been detained in connection with Russia’s worst terrorist violence in nearly two decades.
According to the Russian officials, the suspects are all foreign nationals and that 11 people, in all, had been detained.
President Vladimir Putin condemned it as a “bloody, barbaric terrorist attack” and said in a recorded video address released by the Kremlin that “the main thing now is to prevent those who are behind this bloodbath from committing a new crime”.
The Emergency Situations Ministry published the names of 29 of the 133 people known so far to have died, and Moscow region, Governor Andrei Vorobyov, has warned the death toll could still rise “significantly”.
The death penalty remains in the Russian Constitution but has been under an indefinite moratorium for nearly three decades, including since the Constitutional Court in 2009 effectively banned lower courts from ordering executions.
Hundreds of mourners solemnly heaped flowers, stuffed animals, and messages of grief or defiance on the pavement just outside the Crocus City Hall building.
