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\nEmergency services at the scene of the attack<\/p>\n
A Russian military court has sentenced four men from Tajikistan and 11 accomplices to life in prison for a deadly attack on a Moscow concert hall in March 2024, according to state news agency TASS.<\/p>\n
Some 149 people were killed in the shooting and fire at Crocus City Hall on 22 March 2024.<\/p>\n
Prosecutors charged 19 people in connection with the attack.<\/p>\n
The four other defendants were given sentences ranging from 19 to 22 years in prison, the RIA state news agency reported.<\/p>\n
Some of the accomplices are Russian citizens.<\/p>\n
The attack – the deadliest in Russia in two decades – was claimed by the Afghan branch of so-called Islamic State.<\/p>\n
Families of some of the victims were in court as the sentences were handed down.<\/p>\n
The trial was held behind closed doors, as is customary with such cases in Russia.<\/p>\n
\nEmergency services at the scene of the attack<\/p>\n
The attackers opened fire after entering the concert hall shortly before a concert by Soviet-era rock band Picnic.<\/p>\n
They then set fire to the building, trapping many victims.<\/p>\n
More than 600 people were wounded. Six children were among those killed.<\/p>\n
The incident came two years into Russia’s invasion of Ukraine with Moscow – bogged down by the offensive – dismissing US warnings of an imminent attack.<\/p>\n
Russia’s Investigative Committee said after the verdict that it was “reliably established” the assault was “planned and committed in the interests of” Ukraine.<\/p>\n
It accused the men of also plotting attacks in Dagestan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Russian military court has sentenced four men from Tajikistan and 11 accomplices to life in prison for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":342461,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-342460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}