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Updated Sunday, March 24, 2024-10:51

  • Authors The Islamic State claims responsibility for the attack but the Kremlin points the finger at Ukraine

  • Russia Putin seeks another state of mind like the one he gave the Kremlin in 1999

Russia is experiencing a day of mourning

today

for the victims of Friday's attack on the popular Crocus City Hall concert hall, on the outskirts of Moscow.

According to the latest data provided by the authorities this morning, the terrorist attack has caused

at least 133 deaths

, including three children, and 152 injured, most of whom remain hospitalized, almost fifty in serious condition.

From the early hours of the morning, Muscovites bring flowers to the site of the attack in the city of Krasnogorsk,

about 20 kilometers

from the center of Moscow.

Already the day before, as EFE was able to verify, a spontaneous memorial appeared next to the concert hall building in which Russians placed

bouquets of red flowers and carnations

in memory of the victims of the attack.

This Sunday the flags in official Russian institutions and their embassies abroad will remain at

half-mast as a sign of mourning

.

Cultural events and leisure activities

throughout the country

were also canceled.

The attack on Crocus City Hall, claimed by the Islamic State, is the

largest terrorist attack suffered

by this country in two decades after the massacre in Beslan (2004).

Russian President

Vladimir Putin

stated this Saturday that "all the authors, organizers and those who commissioned this crime will receive a well-deserved and irremediable punishment, whoever they are and regardless of whether they were sent."

Security forces

have so far arrested eleven people

linked to the attack, four of whom personally participated in the massacre, according to authorities.

Meanwhile, stories of the victims

of the attack, told by their friends and family,

are spreading today in Russian media and social networks .

Some survivors also share first-hand images from the concert hall during the attack that took those

attending the Piknik concert by surprise.

According to official sources, on the day of that group's performance,

more than 6,000 tickets

for their concert had been sold out.