Death toll in Moscow concert hall attack rises to 143

The Friday night massacre in Crocus City Hall, a sprawling shopping and entertainment venue on the north-western outskirts of Moscow, was the deadliest terror attack on the Russian soil in nearly 20 years. At least four men armed with automatic rifles shot at thousands of concertgoers and set the venue on fire.

The updated fatalities from Russia’s Emergencies Ministry did not state the number of wounded, but health minister Mikhail Murashko said earlier on Wednesday that 80 people were in hospitals and another 205 had sought medical treatment from the attack. Russian officials, however, have insisted Ukraine and the West had a role, claims Kyiv vehemently denies. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky accused his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, of trying to drum up fervour as his forces fight in Ukraine.FSB chief Alexander Bortnikov also alleged that Western spy agencies could have been involved.

But that assertion was undercut slightly by Belarus’ authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko, who said on Tuesday the suspects were headed for Ukraine because they feared tight controls on the Belarus border.

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