Russia is experiencing a Sunday of mourning after the attack in Moscow on March 22. On Friday evening, the Crocus City Hall concert hall was stained with blood when a terrorist group broke in killed more than 130 people at random. A figure that can still continue to increase.
The videos of the attack leave no room for doubt: the attackers shot in cold blood anyone who crossed their path.
The number might be higher if it weren’t for anonymous heroes like a man who managed to disarm a terrorist when he saw he was about to shoot his wife.
In a television clipping that is circulating mainly on Telegram and X, this person remembers that moment.
unsung hero
The man, identified as Yigit, acted at a time when he and his partner were face to face with an attacker.
“Just before he shot people in cold blood, I looked at my wife and realized I had to do something,” the man told Russian television.
The man spoke to the press without being seen.He continued: “He started reloading the gun and I had a second to think and I did: I moved, pushed my wife and ran around him. I grabbed the machine gun with my left hand and lowered it. “With my right hand I started hitting him on the head.”
Then, the terrorist “began to go down” and at that moment he grabbed him with his left hand and continued to hit him.
In response to the journalist’s question whether he believes he has performed a heroic act, Yigit does not hesitate: “Yes. Besides me and my wife, we probably saved hundreds of people.”.
Russia, in national mourning
“The whole country is in mourning“, declared the Russian public television channel Rossiya 24 at the beginning of its programs. The attack was the bloodiest in Europe claimed by the group Islamic State (IS).
Rossiya 24 broadcast images of an immense digital panel installed on a wall of the attached concert hall where you can see a candle on a black background with the writing “Croco Town Hall. 03/22/2024. We are in mourning…“.
A group of people remember the victims of the attack at a memorial in St. Petersburg. Photo: EFEMoscow’s museums and theaters have announced they will remain closed for the weekend, while the capital’s restaurants have promised to donate part of their Sunday profits to the victims’ families.
Russia provided no new information on the progress of the investigation and continued without mentioning the Islamic State (IS) jihadist group’s claims for the attack, in which at least 133 people died and 152 were injured.
The toll could rise as rescuers continue to search through the building’s rubble.
The Russian president on Saturday Vladimir Putin He promised to punish those responsible for the “ferocious terrorist act” and assured that four men who tried to flee to Ukraine were arrested.
With information from AFP
Source: Clarin
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