Russia said on Saturday it had arrested all four gunmen suspected of carrying out a shooting massacre in a concert hall near Moscow, and President Vladimir Putin pledged to track down and punish those behind the attack.

රුසියාවේ මොස්කව් නුවර ආසන්නයේ පිහිටි ක්රෝකස් නගරයේ සංගීත සංදර්ශනයක් පැවැත්වීමට නියමිතව තිබූ රංග ශාලාවකට එල්ලවූ ත්රස්ත ප්රහාරයෙන් මේ වනවිට පුද්ගලයින් 150 දෙනෙකු ජීවිතක්ෂයට පත්වී තිබේ.

Sri Lanka strongly condemned the dastardly terrorist attack which occurred at the Crocus City shopping center in Moscow, Russia causing tragic loss of civilian lives and injury.  The Sri Lanka Foreign Ministry said that such cowardly acts of violence against civilians are abhorrent

Russia has arrested 11 people including four suspected gunmen in connection with a shooting rampage that killed 93 people in a concert hall near Moscow, the Kremlin said on Saturday.

Sri Lanka has strongly condemned the dastardly terrorist attack which occurred at the Crocus City shopping center in Moscow, Russia on Friday (22), causing tragic loss of civilian lives and injury, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said.

The ISIL (ISIS) group has claimed responsibility for a brazen attack on Moscow’s Crocus City Hall that killed at least 60 people and injured more than 145. At least five camouflage-clad gunmen with automatic weapons burst into the packed concert hall in the city’s western suburbs on Friday night as the audience was gathering to […]

Russia and China on Friday vetoed a U.S.-sponsored United Nations resolution supporting Âan immediate and sustained cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza, calling the measure ambiguous and saying it was not the direct demand to end the fighting that much of the world seeks.

At least 40 people were killed and 145 wounded on Friday when camouflage-clad gunmen opened fire on concertgoers near Moscow, with Islamic State claiming responsibility for what was one of the deadliest attacks on Russia in decades.

Russia s Federal Security Service said 40 people died and more than 100 were wounded in an attack Friday at a Moscow concert hall.

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