More than 143 now confirmed dead after concert attack
In a televised address, Mr Putin condemned the massacre – the deadliest in Russia for nearly 20 years – as a “barbaric terrorist act” and repeated earlier suggestions by Russian security services that the attackers had tried to escape to Ukraine.
Kyiv dismissed the claim that it was some way involved in the attack as “absurd”.
“To suggest the suspects were heading to Ukraine, would suggest they were stupid or suicidal,” Andriy Yusov, a spokesperson for the Ukrainian military intelligence directorate, told the BBC.
The number of people killed in last night’s attack near Moscow has risen again, according to Russian authorities.
At least 133 people have died, the Russian investigative committee said in its latest update.
Search work continues, the committee said. Although dozens have been held however, four people directly involved in the Moscow concert hall attack are among 11 detained.
The head of Russia’s FSB has reportedly informed Putin that all four gunmen from the Moscow concert terror attack have been arrested near Russia’s western border with Ukraine, Russian news agencies report.
Alexander Bortnikov told Putin that seven others have also been detained and that the search for the other accomplices is ongoing.
At least. 100 people were killed when gunmen attacked a packed concert venue on the outskirts of Moscow, Russia says. By late evening, Russian authorities had launched a mass US, Germany, France, India, EU, UK, UN and others condemn terror attack .
