“People tried to get into the door, there was a terrible crush there, there wasn’t enough air,” he said.

It is noted that the man was working in the wardrobe when he heard a burst from a machine gun and saw people running in panic. Near the service exit, his boss was already coordinating people.

“And just like that, it turns out that Islam, Artyom, who also gave interviews, and there was another guy, Ilya, with a walkie-talkie. And it was through this radio that they told us what to do, where to take people,” he said.

15-year-old teenager Islam Khalilov, who previously worked as a cloakroom attendant, who saved people during a terrorist attack in the Crocus City Hall near Moscow, said that he does not consider himself a hero and simply did his job.