Three security sources in Tajikistan reported that Russian investigators arrived in the country on Tuesday to question the families of four men accused of carrying out a deadly attack on a concert hall near Moscow. The sources, who were not authorized to speak to the media, indicated that Tajik security officials brought the families to the capital, Dushanbe, from various regions of the Central Asian state.
Days after the massacre in Moscow on Friday, Russian authorities are holding 11 people in connection with the attack carried out by gunmen who stormed the "Kryokus City Hall," firing on attendees before setting the building on fire, resulting in at least 139 deaths. Officials expect the death toll to rise as rescue workers continued searching the site for victims' bodies on Tuesday, with 97 people still in the hospital.
Additionally, a Turkish security source told the AFP news agency on Tuesday that two of the four suspects detained in Russia for their alleged involvement in the Moscow attack had been moving "freely" between Russia and Turkey before leaving Turkish territory on March 2 on a flight to Russia. The official stated that Shamsiddin Firoduni and Rashobalizod Said Akrami "had been moving freely between Russia and Turkey due to the lack of an arrest warrant against them."
This coincided with Turkish Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya announcing on Tuesday that authorities had arrested 147 individuals suspected of links to ISIS in nationwide operations. He posted on the X platform that the police apprehended the suspects during simultaneous operations across 30 provinces. It was found that the suspects were active within ISIS, involved in armed conflict within the organization, and helped fund it.
On Tuesday, the Russian Federation's Investigative Committee requested the "Basmanny" court to issue an arrest warrant for an eighth suspect in the terrorist attack case on the concert hall in "Kryokus City Hall" in Krasnogorsk, a suburb of Moscow. According to a statement from the Basmanny court's press office to the TASS news agency, "The court received a petition from the Investigative Committee to arrest Kasimov Alisher Khatamovich, suspected of involvement in the attack on the Kryokus City Hall complex."
