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Moscow terrorist attack may refer to: 1977 Moscow bombings; 1999 Russian apartment bombings in Moscow; Moscow theater hostage crisis (2002) terrorist attack; 2004 Moscow Metro bombings (disambiguation) 2010 Moscow Metro bombings terrorist attack; Domodedovo International Airport bombing (2011) Crocus City Hall attack (2024)
On 22 March 2024, a coordinated terrorist attack against civilians occurred at the Crocus City Hall music venue in Crocus City, Krasnogorsk, Moscow Oblast, Russia.The attack began at around 20:00 MSK (), shortly before the Russian band Picnic was scheduled to play a sold-out show at the venue.
The city of Moscow had seen a number of significant bomb attacks in the years prior to the incident. In 2004, two separate attacks on the Moscow Metro , one by a male suicide bomber on 6 February and another by a female suicide bomber on 31 August , killed a total of 51 people; in 2006, 13 people were killed in a market bombing ; and in March ...
Russian officials called the incident "the deadliest and most sophisticated terrorist attack in the Russian capital in six years", [3] a reference to the Avtozavodskaya and Rizhskaya bombings in 2004. At the time of the attacks, an estimated 500,000 people were commuting through Moscow's metro system. [4]
Russia's Foreign Ministry called the incident a terrorist attack. [6] The Islamic State – Khorasan Province, a South-Central Asia-based regional affiliate of the Islamic State, claimed responsibility. [7] [8] In the aftermath of the attack, lawsuits were filed alleging fire safety code violations at the venue. [9]
In July 1999, Russian journalist Aleksandr Zhilin, writing in the Moskovskaya Pravda, warned that there would be terrorist attacks in Moscow organised by the government. Using a leaked Kremlin document as evidence, he added that the motive would be to undermine the opponents of the Russian President Boris Yeltsin .
A mass shooting and multiple explosions occurred at the Crocus City Hall in Krasnogorsk, Moscow Oblast. A fire broke out during the attack. [35] [36] The Islamic State claimed responsibility. Islamic State – Khorasan Province [37] Terrorism in Russia: 26 March Suicide bombing 6 (+1) 0 Shangla District, Pakistan 2024 Shangla bombing
The play We Declare You a Terrorist, by Tim J. Lord and based upon the attack, premiered at the 2009 Summer Play Festival. [ 122 ] [ 123 ] The 2015 first-person shooter game Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege cites the crisis and FSB response as an inspiration for their hostage rescue game mode.