Death toll in Crocus City Hall terrorist attack rises to 137 -UPDATED

  24 March 2024    Read: 1244
Death toll in Crocus City Hall terrorist attack rises to 137 -UPDATED

The death toll in the terrorist attack at Crocus City Hall has risen to 137 people, AzVision.az reports, referring to the Investigative Committee of Russia.

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The death toll from the terrorist attack at the Crocus City Hall music venue near Moscow has climbed to 133 people, the Russian Investigative Committee told TASS.

"As the rubble was being removed in the concert hall of the Crocus City Hall, the number of people killed in the terrorist attack has risen to 133. The search operation is underway," the statement said.

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14:50

The death toll in the terrorist attack at Crocus City Hall has risen to 115 people, AzVision.az reports, referring to the Investigative Committee of Russia.

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12:45

The death toll in the terrorist attack at Crocus City Hall has risen to 93 people, with more than 100 people injured, AzVision.az reports, referring to the Investigative Committee of Russia.

According to the committee, the preliminary causes of death at Crocus Hall were gunshot wounds and poisoning from combustion products. The terrorists set fire to combustible liquid, which caused a fire to break out on the Crocus Hall grounds.

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09:29

More than 60 people were killed as a result of the terror attack at Crocus City Hall, Investigative Committee of Russia said, AzVision.az reports.

“Unfortunately, the number of victims may increase," the statement said.

The incident unfolded when unidentified individuals began shooting at Crocus City Hall in Krasnogorsk, near Moscow, prompting evacuations, according to reports from Russian operational services.

Eyewitnesses reported that people dressed in camouflage attire fired shots from machine guns inside Crocus City Hall, just before the scheduled concert by the Picnic group.

The shooting resulted in the loss of 60 lives, with over 140 individuals sustaining injuries.

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00:31

Forty people have been killed and more than 100 others have been injured, according to preliminary data, in a terrorist attack at Crocus City Hall near Moscow, Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) said, AzVision.az reports citing TASS.

"According to preliminary data, as a result of the terrorist attack at the Crocus City Hall building 40 people were killed and over 100 were injured," the FSB said.

Special services are conducting a search effort, measures are underway to provide assistance to those injured.

AzVision.az 


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