INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
The director of Russia&s Federal Security Service (FSB), Alexander Bortnikov, said on Tuesday that the United States, Britain and Ukraine
were behind the Moscow concert hall attack that killed at least 139 people on Friday, state news agency TASS reported.Ukraine has denied
Russian accusations of involvement in the attack, for which the Daesh militant group claimed responsibility
Western countries have said their intelligence indicates that ISIS-K, Islamic State&s Afghan offshoot, was responsible, Reuters reported
Russia said on Saturday it had arrested all four gunmen suspected of carrying out a shooting massacre in a concert hall near Moscow.ISIS
claimed responsibility for Friday&s rampage, but there were indications that Russia was pursuing a Ukrainian link, despite emphatic denials
from Ukrainian officials that Kyiv had anything to do with it.Moscow regional Governor Andrei Vorobyov said 133 bodies had been recovered
from the rubble in 24 hours and doctors were &fighting for the lives of 107 people&
State TV editor Margarita Simonyan, without citing a source, had earlier given a toll of 143.In a televised address, Putin said 11 people
had been detained, including the four gunmen
&They tried to hide and moved towards Ukraine, where, according to preliminary data, a window was prepared for them on the Ukrainian side to
cross the state border,& he said.Russia&s FSB security service said the gunmen had contacts in Ukraine and were captured near the border
It said they were being transferred to Moscow, Reuters reported.The post Russia&s FSB chief says U.S., Britain, Ukraine behind Moscow attack
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