INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for a gun attack on a Moscow concert hall on Friday, which Russian authorities said killed at
least 40 people.IS fighters "attacked a large gathering..
on the outskirts of the Russian capital Moscow," the group said in a statement on the Telegram messaging app.The IS statement said the
attackers had "retreated to their bases safely."Russia's National Guard said it was on the scene and looking for the perpetrators.Gunmen
opened fire at a rock concert in a northern Moscow suburb killing at least 40 people, wounding 100 and setting off an inferno in the
theatre, authorities said.Attackers dressed in camouflage uniforms entered the building, opened fire and threw a grenade or incendiary bomb,
according to a journalist for the RIA Novosti news agency at the scene.Russian authorities said a "terrorist" investigation had been started
and President Vladimir Putin was receiving "constant" updates, his spokesman Dmitry Peskov told Russian news agencies.
