Moscow attack: The 29 victims identified so far

Russian authorities have so far identified 29 people among the 143 killed in Friday night’s terror attack at a concert venue near Moscow, the Emergencies Ministry said.

The ministry released a list of the first 29 names, showing the difficulty of identifying the victims as rescuers continue to dismantle Crocus City Hall, which was destroyed by fire.

Civil protection services are unable or unwilling to transport heavy machinery to the scene of the tragedy, and most of the work is done manually.

Who are some of the first victims of the attack?

Ekaterina Novoselova, 42, was listed by the Russian Health Ministry as dead from the Crocus City Hall attack. She had won beauty pageants in 2001 in her hometown of Tver and had reportedly recently moved to Moscow. She was a mother of two children.

Another victim was Natalya Zhudina, 44, a graduate of the Ural State University of Economics, originally from Yekaterinenburg.

Pavel Okishev, 34, who would have celebrated his 35th birthday in a few days, and his photographer wife Irina Okisheva, 33, were reported killed. The couple hailed from Kirov and had been together since 2012.

One man who died, 48-year-old Sergey Laptev, was from the Russian-occupied region of Luhansk in Ukraine and had fled to Russia.

Natalia Zhudina, 44 years old.