Intelligence agencies have detained 11 people, including four terrorists, who were directly involved in an attack on the Crocus City Hall, Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) said in a statement.
"The activities of intelligence and law enforcement agencies have resulted in the detention of 11 people, including four terrorists, who directly participated in the terrorist attack on the Crocus City Hall," the statement reads.
Work is underway to identify terrorist accomplices and establish all the circumstances of the attack.
"It has already been established that the terrorist attack was carefully planned. The weapons that the terrorists used had been placed in a cache in advance," the FSB noted.
- The death toll from last night's attack on Crocus City Hall has now risen to 143, the Russian Investigative Committee says.
According to a post on the Telegram messaging app that the committee shared, emergency services who are clearing the rubble at the concert venue have found more dead bodies at the site.
"The death toll currently stands at 115 people," it has said, adding that the search is continuing.
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The attackers who were detained in the Bryansk region earlier this morning were "intending to cross over to Ukraine" and had "contacts on the Ukrainian side", Russia's security agency has said, according to Russian state-owned news agency Ria Novosti.
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143 personnes sont mortes dans une attaque terroriste au Crocus City Hall, une salle de concert en banlieue de Moscou, a annoncé le Comité d’enquête russe le 23 mars. Les assaillants ont ouvert le feu contre sur le public, un énorme incendie s'est ensuite déclaré.
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