Gunmen target Crocus City Hall in Krasnogorsk, the administrative centre of Moscow region, where music band Picnic was performing, officials say.
Smoke rises above the burning Crocus City Hall concert venue following a reported shooting incident. / Photo: Reuters
Russia's Federal Security Service, the main domestic security and counter-terrorism agency, said 40 people were killed and more than 100 were wounded in the attack at Crocus City Hall, a large music hall on Moscow's western edge. Russian news reports said concertgoers were being evacuated, but that the blaze could have trapped an unknown number.
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan was among the first to tell his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov that Ankara condemns the"heinous terrorist attack".Firefighters work near the burning Crocus City Hall concert venue following a shooting incident.Alexei, a music producer visiting the concert, told AFP news agency he heard"several machine gun bursts and a terrible female scream. Then a lot of screams. Just three or four bursts and then there were a few more".
Repeated volleys of gunfire could be heard in videos posted by Russian media and on Telegram channels.Another showed a man inside the auditorium and said the assailants had set it on fire, as gunshots rang out incessantly in the background.
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