(30 Mar 2024)
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Krasnogorsk, Moscow region, Russia - 30 March 2024
1. Wide of people at the memorial to victims of the concert hall attack
2. Close up of ambassadors with flowers
3. Wide of ceremony UPSOUND (Russian) Russian Foreign Ministry representative, no name given: “On behalf of the Russian Foreign Ministry, let me express deep gratitude to you for your participation in today’s ceremony dedicated to the memory of innocent citizens who became victims of a barbaric terrorist act.”
4. Wide of people releasing balloons into the air, tilt up balloons flying, zoom in
5. Wide of ambassadors laying flowers
6. Mid of ambassadors walking with flowers, including US ambassador to Russia Lynne Tracy (right), laying flowers
7. Various of ambassadors laying flowers
8. Various of the burnt concert hall
STORYLINE:
Ambassadors of foreign countries to Moscow laid flowers on Saturday at the site of last week’s attack on a suburban Moscow concert hall that killed 144 people.
Those in attendance included ambassadors from the United States, EU countries, Africa and Latin America. Russian state news agency RIA Novosti noted that the attendees included representatives of “unfriendly states”.
Since the attack, thousands of people brought bunches of flowers, wreaths and other tokens such as teddy bears, creating a makeshift memorial.
The number of victims of the raid continues to rise, with Russian state news agency Tass reporting Saturday that the number of people injured had increased to 551, quoting figures from the Moscow regional department of the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry.
The death toll rose to 144 on Friday when a severely injured victim died in a hospital, according to Russian Health Minister Mikhail Murashko.
An affiliate of the Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the attack, the deadliest on Russian soil in years. The Kremlin, however, has insisted that Ukraine and the West had a role, something Kyiv has vehemently denied.
Nine people were detained by Tajikistan’s state security service in relation to the attack, RIA Novosti said Friday. In Russia, a total of nine suspects have faced court so far and were remanded in pre-trial detention.
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