Russian authorities have raised the death toll from Friday’s attack on the Crocus City Hall concert hall to 182, according to the latest toll released tonight and as emergency services recover more bodies from the rubble.
The Moscow Region Health Department published on its digital page a list of deceased that includes data on hospitalizations: 101 people remain hospitalized, 61 are receiving outpatient treatment and 20 were discharged, for a total of 182 injured.
During the searches, investigators found two Saiga rifles, more than 500 cartridges and 28 magazines, which the attackers abandoned at the scene before beginning to escape, and after setting fire to the premises.
So far, security forces have detained 11 people in connection with the attack, four of whom personally participated in the attack, according to Russian authorities.
The suspects in Friday’s attack appeared in a district court in the Russian capital this evening. In the presence of a heavy police presence around the Basmanny District Court.
The first suspect, Dalerjon Barotovich Mirzoev, appeared before the Basmani Court in Moscow, with the judge, Elena Lenskaya, ordering provisional detention until May 2 after being indicted for the crime of terrorist attack by an organized group of people, according to a article of the Russian Criminal Code that provides for penalties of up to life imprisonment.
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