Gunmen opened fire with automatic weapons at concertgoers near Moscow on Friday, in an attack claimed by Islamic State militants.
The number of victims of the terrorist attack at Crocus City Hall reached 143 people, at least 40 of whom were killed, reported Margarita Simonyan, editor-in-chief of Rossiya Segodnya, Sputnik’s parent media group.
In the deadliest attack in Russia since the 2004 Beslan school siege,