Russian Well being Minister Mikhail Murashko stated that this individual was certainly one of 5 nonetheless in hospital in a “very critical situation,” and that docs “did all the things of their energy” to save lots of them.
The official added that 80 individuals injured within the assault had been nonetheless in hospital, whereas 205 others requested medical help in outpatient clinics.
The bloodbath Friday night time at Crocus Metropolis Corridor, a sprawling buying and leisure venue on the northwestern outskirts of Moscow, was the deadliest terrorist assault on Russian soil in almost 20 years.
At the least 4 gunmen carrying automated rifles opened fireplace on 1000’s of concert-goers and set the venue on fireplace.
A gaggle affiliated with the Islamic State claimed accountability for the violence, whereas US intelligence stated it had info confirming the group’s accountability.
French President Emmanuel Macron stated France additionally had intelligence indicating that an “ISIS-affiliated entity” was accountable for the assault.
Russia’s Federal Safety Service, or FSB, stated it arrested 11 individuals the day after the assault, together with 4 suspected militants.
Nonetheless, Russian officers have insisted that Ukraine and the West performed a job, one thing Kiev strongly denies. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has accused his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin of making an attempt to drum up enthusiasm whereas his forces are combating in Ukraine.
FSB chief Alexander Bortnikov additionally claimed that Western spy companies could also be concerned.
Bortnikov stated: “We imagine that extremist Islamists ready the operation, whereas Western particular companies assisted it, and the Ukrainian intelligence companies had a direct position in it.”
He repeated Putin’s declare that the 4 militants had been making an attempt to flee to Ukraine after they had been captured, and this was seen as proof of Kiev’s alleged involvement.
However that assertion was undermined barely by authoritarian Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, who stated on Tuesday that the suspects had been heading to Ukraine as a result of they feared tight controls on Belarus’ borders.
The Islamic State, which misplaced a lot of its territory after the Russian army operation in Syria after 2015, has lengthy focused Russia.
In October 2015, a bomb planted by ISIS shot down a Russian airliner over the Sinai Desert, killing all 224 individuals on board, most of them Russian vacationers coming back from Egypt.
The group, which is especially energetic in Syria and Iraq but in addition in Afghanistan and Africa, has claimed accountability for a number of assaults in Russia’s troubled Caucasus area and different areas lately. It has recruited fighters from Russia and different components of the previous Soviet Union.
Putin warned on Monday of the opportunity of extra assaults, alleging doable Western involvement.
He didn’t point out the warning about the opportunity of an imminent terrorist assault that the US secretly shared with Moscow two weeks earlier than the raid.
Three days earlier than the assault, Putin denounced the US embassy’s March 7 discover urging People to keep away from crowds in Moscow, together with live shows, as an try to intimidate Russians and “blackmail” the Kremlin forward of the presidential election.
Bortnikov stated Russia was grateful for the warning however described it as too common.