Terrorist attack at Moscow concert center already leaves more than 60 dead

He death toll after shooting carried out by members of the Islamic State (IS) in a concert hall near Moscow rose to 60official sources assured.

According to the state agency Tass, the Investigative Committee (IC) of the Russian Federation established that 60 people had lost their lives after the attack and that it was feared that the number of fatalities would increase. “It has been preliminarily determined that more than 60 people died in the terrorist attack. Unfortunately, the death toll may increase,” said the official entity.

According to Tass, IC investigators, criminalists and experts, together with operational units of the Ministry of the Interior and the Federal Security Service (FSB), Investigations continue at the scene in the town of Krasnogorsk, Moscow Region.

It had initially been established that more than 40 people had died at Crocus City Hall after the shooting carried out by the Islamist group. “The director of the FSB, Alexander Bortnikov; the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Vladimir Kolokoltsev; “The head of the Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin, and the director of the Russian Guard, Viktor Zolotov, informed the Russian President, Vladimir Putin, about the progress of the investigation of the terrorist attack,” says a message from the IC to which the online edition of Izveztia.

For its part, the Rossiskaya Gazeta newspaper stated that the Ministry of Health of the Moscow region (oblast) published on its website a list of 145 victims, including dead and injuredthe latter transferred to hospitals in the towns of Krasnogorsk, Khimki, Dolgoprudny and Odintsovo.

Recent reports indicate that nine people are in extremely serious condition. The governor of the Moscow Oblast, Andrey Vorobyov, addressed the inhabitants of his entity and asked them, “if your loved ones are injured or cannot contact them, call the hotline: 122-0,” in statements reported by Rossiskaya Gazeta.