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At least 40 people were killed and more than a hundred injured in Friday's shooting at a concert hall in a suburban shopping center. MoscowCapital Russia, the Federal Security Service (FSB) reported. “Preliminarily, 40 people have died and more than a hundred have been injured as a result of the terrorist attack on the Crocus City Hall shopping center,” the FSB news service reported to local agencies. According to Moscow region authorities, more than twenty injured people have been hospitalized, four of them in critical condition.

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According to FSBA group armed with automatic weapons carried out the attack in the city of KrasnogorskNorthwest MoscowIn the prelude to a concert by the group Picnic Rock.

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You can see how in the pictures posted by eyewitnesses on social networks Several men shoot people as they enter the shopping center Many more bodies lie on the ground in a pool of blood.

channels telegram It should At the time of the attack, up to 6,200 people may have been in the concert hall.As all tickets are sold out.

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TASS news agency indicated that A third of the building is engulfed in flames. Videos circulating on social media showed huge columns of black smoke billowing from the building.

Russian agencies said security forces rushed to the scene. The attack happened during a concert by a Russian rock group Picnicwhose members were expelled, TASS pointed out.

Basa and Mash, current affairs networks close to the security forces, posted the videos on Telegram At least two armed men can be seen advancing in the lobby of the complex. In other scenes, corpses and groups of people can be seen rushing towards the exit.

Other images show spectators hiding behind seats or evacuating the room.

The White House offered its condolences to the victims of the “horrific” shooting. “The images are simply horrifying and difficult to watch,” National Safety Council spokesman John Kirby said.

Ukraine assured that it had nothing to do with the attack.

In recent days, Russia has been the target of attacks and bombings by anti-government Russian militias from Ukraine, which has faced Russian military intervention since 2022.

Russia It has already been the target of numerous attacks by Islamist groups and shootings by non-politically motivated or disproportionate populations.

In 2002, a group of Chechen militants took 912 hostages in Moscow's Dubrovka theater to demand the withdrawal of Russian troops from Chechnya.

The hostage situation ended with the intervention of special forces and 130 people died, almost all of them asphyxiated by the gas used by the army.