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Weekend: Russian says at least 60 dead in Moscow attack

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Russian says at least 60 dead in Moscow attack

23/03/2024 GMT

BBC World Service - Weekend, Russian says at least 60 dead in Moscow attack

The Islamic State group has claimed it was behind the Moscow concert attack on Friday

The Islamic State group has claimed it was behind the Moscow concert attack on Friday evening.

Gunmen unleashed fire at the 6,200-seat Crocus City Hall in Krasnogorsk, near Moscow, ahead of a concert by the Russian rock band Piknik on Friday evening. Russian authorities confirmed the death toll of the attack has risen to at least 60 and 145 people were left injured. They have called it a terrorist attack. President Putin has said he wishes all the victims a “speedy recovery”.

Also in the programme: The princess of Wales, Kate Middleton, speaks out about undergoing cancer treatment; and the first British field hospital has been set up in Gaza and aims to start fully operating early next week.
 
Joining presenter Julian Worricker are Jonathan Cohen, director of an NGO called Conciliation Resources, and Sanam Naraghi Anderlini, the founder and CEO of the International Civil Society Action Network (ICAN).

(Picture: Crocus City Hall in flames following the attack. Credit: VASILY PRUDNIKOV/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock)

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