Russia on Saturday said it had arrested 11 people -- including four gunmen -- over the attack on a Moscow concert hall claimed by Islamic State, as the death toll rose to 93.
Camouflaged assailants opened fire at the packed Crocus City Hall in Moscow's northern suburb of Krasnogorsk on Friday evening ahead of a concert by Soviet-era rock band Piknik in the deadliest attack in Russia for at least a decade.
The Kremlin said he was being kept constantly informed and a government official said he had wished a speedy recovery to the victims. "The terrorists used a flammable liquid to set fire to the concert hall's premises, where spectators were located, including wounded," the Investigative Committee said.
- Global condemnation -Russian authorities have called it a"terrorist attack", but have not commented on Islamic State's claim. In Moscow, residents formed long queues in the Saturday morning rain to donate blood, according to videos posted by state media outlets. Just three days before, Putin had publicly dismissed Western warnings of an imminent attack in Moscow as a propaganda designed to scare Russian citizens.
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