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Death toll in Moscow concert hall attack rises to 140 after another victim dies in hospital

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The death toll from last week's Moscow concert hall attack rose to 140 on Wednesday after another victim died in a hospital, Russian officials said.

That person was one of five still hospitalized in “extremely grave condition,” and the doctors “did everything they could” to save them, Russia's Health Minister Mikhail Murashko said.

A total of 80 people injured in the attack

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