Death toll from terrorist attack on Moscow concert hall rises to 137

Two detainees have already been formally charged with a crime of terrorism

MADRID, 24 Mar. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Russian Investigative Committee has raised the number of deaths in Friday's attack on the Crocus City Hall concert hall in Moscow to 137, according to its latest report published this Sunday, as emergency services extract lifeless bodies from among the rubble of the compound, set on fire by the attackers.

The Moscow Region Health Department later published on its website a list of injured people that includes 101 people who remain hospitalized, 61 who are receiving outpatient treatment and 20 more who have been discharged, for a total of 182. wounded.

As reported yesterday, during the search the investigators found two Saiga carbines, more than 500 cartridges and 28 magazines that the attackers left at the scene before fleeing.

Meanwhile, the authorities have begun to present the detained suspects to court, reports the Russian news agency TASS.

The first, Dalerjon Barotovich Mirzoev, has appeared before the Basmani Court in Moscow, whose judge, Elena Lenskaya, has ordered provisional detention until May 2 after accusing him of the crime of terrorist attack by an organized group of people resulting in death classified in Article 205.3B of the Russian Penal Code, which provides for penalties of up to life imprisonment.

Videos broadcast by Russian television show Mirzoev with a beard and shaved mustache, visibly disoriented and dressed in a tracksuit, sitting on a bench inside a glass area. There are several marks of injuries on his face, including a large bruise under his right eye.

Russian media have published that Mirzoev had four children, was born in Tajikistan and was 32 years old. He had provisionally registered in Novoribirsk for a period of three months that had already expired.

The same crime that Mirzoev is accused of is Saidakrami Murodali Rachabalizoda, who will also be taken into custody of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) after appearing in court. In both cases the hearing was held behind closed doors for security reasons.

In images of Rachabalizoda he also appears with a beard and sports clothing sitting with a serious expression. A photograph in which the two suspects appear together shows them standing, tied behind their backs, blindfolded with a white cloth and their bodies bent forward next to two individuals in camouflage suits with their faces partially covered who are in charge. of his transfer.

NEW CLAIM VIDEO

Meanwhile, the Islamic State has published a new video, the second, claiming responsibility for the attack. The recording, lasting almost 90 seconds, has been broadcast by the news agency linked to the Islamist group, Amaq.

The images show the assailants at the site of the attack and the subtitles in Arabic explain that it shows "exclusive scenes" of this "bloody attack against Christians."

The video shows a man heavily armed with an assault rifle firing in a hallway where several motionless bodies can already be seen lying on the floor. The camera pan shows another of the attackers stabbing a person who is on the ground with a knife.

Then four men cross paths and pass through an area of ​​Crocus City Hall where there were no people and their distorted voices can be heard recorded in the Arabic subtitles: "Kill them without mercy", "We have come for the cause of Allah."

On Saturday, a first Islamic State propaganda video was published through Amaq in which the attack was claimed and four men with blurred faces were shown armed with rifles, pistols and bombs. The video highlights the "hard blow" dealt to Russia in this attack against "thousands of Christians who were in a concert hall."

Friday's attack on Crocus City Hall is the worst terrorist attack in the contemporary history of the Russian capital, surpassing the crisis of the kidnapping, by Chechen separatists, of the Dubrovka theater in 2002, an attack that resulted in 132 hostages died after an unmitigated intervention by the Russian security forces.