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Moscow Terrorist attack: 143 dead, dozens injured; Eleven arrested including the four shooters

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Important Takeaways:

  • Moscow concert attack survivors describe nightmare of fear and death
  • The four armed men walked calmly towards the metal detectors at Crocus City Hall, firing their automatic weapons point-blank in short bursts at terrified civilians who fell screaming in a hail of bullets.
  • Nearby, one witness named Natalya had just taken off her coat and was standing in line on Friday evening at the internal entrance to the 6,200-seat concert hall outside Moscow, where Soviet-era rock group “Picnic” was to perform its hit “Afraid of Nothing.”
  • “The shots came from behind us,” Natalya, who asked for her surname not to be used, told Reuters.
  • More than 143 people were killed and dozens more injured in the deadliest attack in Russia since the 2004 Beslan school siege. Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack.
  • The Federal Security Service (FSB) said 11 people – including the four alleged attackers – had been detained in the Bryansk region, about 340 km (210 miles) southwest of Moscow, as they headed for the border over which they hoped to escape to Ukraine. Kyiv has denied any involvement in that attack.

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Putin very stern vowing revenge in response to terrorist attack

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Important Takeaways:

  • VLAD VOWS REVENGE Putin says Moscow concert hall gunmen who killed 133 tried to flee to UKRAINE despite ISIS claiming terror attack
  • In his speech Putin, declared March 24 a day of national mourning for the victims.
  • Unblinking and tight-lipped, he said: “I am speaking to you today in connection with the bloody, barbaric terrorist act, the victims of which were dozens of innocent, peaceful people.”
  • He continued: “All four perpetrators of the terrorist act who shot and killed people have been detained.
  • “They were travelling towards Ukraine … We will identify and punish everybody who stood behind the terrorists, who prepared the attack.”

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