Moscow: “Two participants in the Crocus City Hall attack were killed,” the Russian BBC claims

A BBC source familiar with the operation to track down the attackers at Crocus City Hall near Moscow claims at least two of the attackers have been killed. One in the auditorium itself and the second in the Bryansk region, where security forces stopped a white Renault car. The documents of one of them are at the disposal of the Russian service of the BBC.

The BBC has a copy of the passport of the man killed in the Bryansk region – he is a 30-year-old citizen of Tajikistan. She claims she knows the man’s name, but won’t release it until she’s sure his family knows he’s dead.

According to the Russian BBC he was given a passport by the Ministry of Interior for the city of Vakhdat, which is located 19 kilometers from Dushanbe. For some time, the deceased lived in Podolsk – in 2018, the court of the city of Podolsk ruled that he violated the rules of residence in the Russian Federation – exceeded the period of stay of 90 days. He was fined 5,000 rubles and ordered to make a “controlled independent exit” from Russia. That is, voluntary deportation.

UPDATE on the Moscow Crocus shooters: the Renault in which the suspects were fleeing was discovered near Hatsun, Bryansk. The car did not stop at the request of police officers. The law enforcement officers opened fire, the car overturned — State Duma’s Oleksandr Khinshtein

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One was a person to be deported, the other unknown

The BBC also has a copy of the document of Samsindin Faridouni, whose video interrogation was released today by Russian security forces and who was arrested during an operation in the Bryansk region where the white Renault car pictured above was shot at by the X app. Fariduni was born on September 17, 1998, received his current passport in Tajikistan in 2021 and was valid until 2031.

The death toll has risen to 150 according to the BBC, and Moscow region governor Andrei Vorobyov has warned of a significant rise, with the prospect of more bodies hidden under the rubble of the collapsed concert venue.

About 28 bodies were found in one of his toilets, it was reported. Fourteen bodies were found in an evacuation staircase. Some of the dead have already been identified.