Moscow attack: Putin says Ukraine linked to concert hall shooting that killed over 140

A woman lays flowers at a makeshift memorial in front of the Crocus City Hall, a day after a gun attack in Krasnogorsk, outside Moscow, killed more 100 people. Photograph: Olga Maltseva/Getty Imagessaid on Saturday it had arrested 11 people including four suspected gunmen in connection with a shooting rampage that killed 143 people in a concert hall near Moscow, the deadliest attack in Russia for 20 years.

“All the perpetrators, organisers and those who ordered this crime will be justly and inevitably punished. Whoever they are, whoever is guiding them,” Putin said. “We will identify and punish everyone who stands behind the terrorists, who prepared this atrocity, this strike against Russia, against our people.”

A senior Russian lawmaker, Andrei Kartapolov, said that if Ukraine was involved, then Russia must deliver a “worthy, clear and concrete” reply on the battlefield. Russia’s Investigative Committee earlier said at least 115 had died in the attack, in which camouflage-clad gunmen opened fire with automatic weapons at concertgoers in the Crocus City Hall near the capital.

He said two were arrested after a car chase and two others fled into a forest. From the FSB statement, it appeared they too were later detained. The Kremlin said Mr Putin had held conversations with the leaders of Belarus and Uzbekistan in which all sides affirmed their willingness to work together to fight terrorism.A Kalashnikov assault rifle lies on the ground at the scene of the shooting. Photograph: Investigative Committee of Russia via AP

The US has intelligence confirming Islamic State’s claim of responsibility for the shooting, a US official said. The official, speaking on condition of anonymity said Washington had warned Moscow “appropriately” in recent weeks of the possibility of an attack.

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