The death toll from last week's Moscow concert hall attack rose to 140 after another victim died in a hospital, Russian officials said. A total of 80 people injured in the attack remain hospitalised.
That person was one of five still hospitalised in "extremely grave condition", and the doctors "did everything they could" to save them, Russia's Health Minister Mikhail Murashko said.
At least four gunmen toting automatic rifles shot at thousands of concertgoers and set the venue on fire. Toys and flowers lie in front of the Crocus City Hall on the western outskirts of Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, March 27, 2024. "We believe that radical Islamists prepared the action, while Western special services assisted it and Ukrainian special services had a direct part in it," Bortnikov said, without giving details.
The Islamic State group, which lost much of its territory following Russia's military action in Syria after 2015, has long targeted Russia.
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