40 killed, more than 100 injured in terrorist attack at Crocus City Hall

MOSCOW-  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) reported, according to 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.

Russia to request UNSC meeting over terror attack in Moscow 

Moscow will request a United Nations Security Council meeting in the near future following the terror attack on Moscow’s Crocus City Hall music venue, Russian Foreign Ministry’s Ambassador at Large Rodion Miroshnik said.

“Our diplomats will raise this issue at a UN Security Council meeting. I am sure they will demand that the Security Council hold a meeting in the near future so that the global majority, the biggest international organization may condemn these actions,” he said in an interview with the Rossiya-24 television channel.

Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova pledged that Russian special services will identify all those involved in the terror attack on Moscow’s Crocus City Hall.

Unidentified gunmen went on a shooting spree at the Crocus City Hall music venue in the town of Krasnogorsk in the Moscow Region before a concert by the rock band Picnic. Later an explosion rocked the building, starting a fire.