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https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/...e-than-20-arrested-over-deadly-concert-attack
Russia has arrested more than 20 people in connection with an attack that killed more than 140 people at a concert hall near Moscow in March, the head of the FSB security service said, adding for the first time that the ISIL (ISIS) group coordinated the assault.
ISIL has claimed responsibility on multiple occasions for the March 22 attack, but Russia has repeatedly tried to link Ukraine and the West to the attack.
FSB chief Alexander Bortnikov was quoted as saying by the Ria Novosti news agency on Friday that “preparations, the financing, the attack and the retreat of the terrorists were coordinated via the internet by members of Khorasan Province [ISKP or ISIS-K],” an ISIL branch active in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Russia has arrested more than 20 people in connection with an attack that killed more than 140 people at a concert hall near Moscow in March, the head of the FSB security service said, adding for the first time that the ISIL (ISIS) group coordinated the assault.
ISIL has claimed responsibility on multiple occasions for the March 22 attack, but Russia has repeatedly tried to link Ukraine and the West to the attack.
FSB chief Alexander Bortnikov was quoted as saying by the Ria Novosti news agency on Friday that “preparations, the financing, the attack and the retreat of the terrorists were coordinated via the internet by members of Khorasan Province [ISKP or ISIS-K],” an ISIL branch active in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
