Terrorist Attack At Crocus City Hall In Moscow Region: At Least 40 People Killed
- 22.03.2024, 21:15
(Updated) More than 100 people have been injured.
What has happened: a major terrorist attack occurred on the evening of Friday, March 22, in the Crocus City Hall concert hall with a capacity of about 7 thousand people. About 100 people could be staying in the building, writes Baza. Some of them could take refuge on the -1st floor, while others could be cut off from the exit by fire on the fourth floor of the building, the publication writes. The building is on fire and the roof has collapsed.
Are there any casualties: 40 people are already known to have died during the shooting at Crocus City Hall, writes 112. At least 100 more people were injured.
Where is this happening: Krasnogorsk, Moscow region of the Russian Federation.
00:16 Among the survivors of the attack at Crocus City Hall were Russian sports commentator Gusev and comedian Svetlakov. “We are alive... good health to everyone,” comedian Sergei Svetlakov wrote in his Telegram channel. From this message we can conclude that at the time of the attack he was in Crocus City Hall. He also expressed his condolences to everyone who suffered. “It was horror,” Svetlakov wrote.
The fact that sports commentator Viktor Gusev was also at Crocus City Hall was reported on Channel One, the Agency informs. According to the publication, Gusev said that together with other spectators he had to barricade himself in the concert hall.
23:59 The Picnic band, which was supposed to perform today at Crocus, cannot contact one of the musicians of the group; they do not know whether he left the building, concert director of the group Yuri Chernyshevsky told RBC.
23:47 Among the dead in Crocus City Hall there are children, said Russian State Duma deputy Nina Ostanina. According to her, today the All-Russian dance championship was held there.
23:42 The European Union condemned the terrorist attack in Crocus City Hall, this was announced by the official representative of the EU Foreign Service Peter Stano on the social network X. “The EU is shocked and appalled by the reports of a terrorist attack in the Crocus City Hall in Moscow. The EU condemns any attacks against civilians. Our thoughts are with all those Russian citizens affected,” he said.
23:13 Belarusian security forces were additionally armed with automatic weapons after the terrorist attack in the Moscow region.
23:11 The search for terrorists in Crocus continues. This follows from a message published on the Telegram channel of the Russian Guard: “Special units of the Russian Guard are working at the scene of the terrorist attack in Crocus City Hall.” The search for criminals and the evacuation of citizens from the building are underway,” the message says.
22:49 The attack on the Crocus City Hall concert hall was commented on by Mykhaylo Podolyak, adviser to the head of the office of the President of Ukraine. According to him, Kyiv is in no way involved in this attack.
22:44 Meduza publishes footage of eyewitnesses.
22:36 Astra publishes a video of an arrest at Crocus. It is unclear who this person is.
22:31 Eyewitness account: shooting at people began in the queue at the entrance
Important Stories publishes a story from the daughter of a concert attendee. According to her, her mother and sister were standing in line at the entrance; they were already late for the concert. “And some of the terrorists stood in the same line behind, they started shooting at people. At the same time, people in the hall were set on fire and people in the stalls were shot,” she said.
“My mother and sister started running, the whole crowd started running, the electricity went out. They fell, some men picked them up. Then they started to get out, but the metro was closed, they started walking somewhere, eventually made a circle and came to another exit of the building,” the woman said. Only then did they manage to stop a minibus and leave.
22:27 Telegram channel “112” publishes a video showing black bags, which presumably contain dead people.
22:18 FSB: 40 people were killed and more than 100 were injured in the terrorist attack in Crocus.
22:14 The Crocus building is collapsing due to fire.
22:04 White House spokesman John Kirby said that Washington is receiving reports about what happened in Moscow. “The footage from there is horrific and difficult to watch,” he said.
According to Kirby, the White House does not have enough information and is waiting for details from Russian authorities. “Our thoughts are with those whose loved ones were killed in this horrific attack,” he said.
It should be noted that on March 8, the US Embassy in Moscow warned about a possible “attack by extremists” and did not recommend its citizens to visit concert halls and other crowded places. Russian President Vladimir Putin called these statements “outright blackmail.”
22:02 The Defense Intelligence of Ukraine claims that the terrorist attack in the Moscow region was a “conscious provocation of Putin’s special services”.
DIU representative Andriy Yusov reported this in a commentary to Ukrayinska Pravda: “This is a deliberate provocation of Putin’s special services, which the international community warned about. The Kremlin tyrant began his career with this and wants to end it with the same crimes against his own citizens.”
21:57 Rescuers are urgently hospitalizing the wounded from the scene of the terrorist attack at Crocus City Hall.
21:45 The attackers at Crocus City Hall in the Moscow region managed to escape.
21:41 A second explosion occurred in the Crocus City Hall building.
21:25 The Embassy of Belarus in the Russian Federation is clarifying whether there are Belarusians among the victims in Crocus City Hall.
21:23 The Picnic bassist Marat Korchemny told “Petersburg Diary” that the whole band was saved.
“The shooting started in the hall just before the concert. A series of shots thundered. The whole band was saved, everyone is safe, now we are trying to evacuate,” he said.
21:12 Firefighters removed about 100 people from the basement in Crocus City Hall, the Ministry of Emergency Situations reported.
“Work is underway to rescue people from the roof of the building using lifting mechanisms,” the department added.
21:11 More than 50 ambulance teams went to the building. Helicopters were also sent to extinguish the fire.
21:09 A RIA Novosti correspondent who was at the scene reported that at least three people in camouflage burst into the Crocus City Hall stalls and opened fire with automatic weapons. According to him, the attackers threw a grenade or an incendiary bomb, which started a fire. A third of the Crocus City Hall building is on fire, TASS adds.
21:00 A source from the VChK-OGPU Telegram channel reported that 3 to 10 people with machine guns burst into Crocus City Hall and opened fire to kill. “At the moment, there are tentatively 15 dead. The death of one security guard who tried to stop the attackers has been accurately confirmed,” he said.
20:59 In the videos posted on Russian social media, machine gun fire can be heard.