Makeleio in Moscow: Over 100 missing persons from the terrorist attack

Russia remains in shock from in while over 100 people are missing from Friday’s terrorist attack (22/03/2024). In particular, the authorities in Russia have been known to have received 143 reports about people missing, after the Moscow massacre, while 84 bodies have been identified so far, including the bodies of five children aged 9 to 16. At the same time, a Russian information medium wrote that at least 95 people remain missing after last week’s attack near Moscow. The official account of the Crocus City Hall attack now stands at 140 dead and 182 injured. However, the Baza instrument, which has good contacts with Russia’s security and law enforcement agencies, wrote that an additional 95 people appear on lists compiled by emergency services and based on civil appeals for their missing relatives. “These lists include people with whom their relatives have failed to contact after the terrorist attack, but who are not on the list of dead or injured,” writes Baza. “Some of these people have died, but have not yet been identified”. Over 500 cartridges at the site of Russian investigators reported that the attack was committed by four armed men using automatic Kalashnikov firearms. More than 500 cartridges were found at the site. The attack started shortly before the rock band “Picnic” went on stage for a concert in a crowded room of 6,200 spectators. More than 200 people may have been in the burning building minutes before the roof collapsed, broadcast on Saturday Baza, citing sources from emergency services that checked the CCTV footage. Social media has flooded since the attack of calls from people seeking help to find victims. In a group on Telegram, called “Crocus. Help Centre”, friends and relatives of missing spectators share names and offer support to each other. “Was anyone on the list called Igor Valentinovich Clemenchenko?” a user wrote Saturday night. “Can someone send the list of victims?”. The adjective Clemenchenko is not included in the list of confirmed deaths published by Russia’s Emergency Situations Department. “I’m so worried” Another user wrote in the same chat that his uncle was working near Crocus and has not contacted after the attack. “I am very worried,” his nephew wrote Saturday night. Local media in the Briansk region, in southwestern Russia, broadcast today that a woman is still looking for Dmitry Baslikov’s son, a teacher who worked in Moscow, who went to the “Picnic” concert along with a friend who managed to escape. Baslikov’s name is not on the list of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations. People missing have since been confirmed that they had been killed, such as 15-year-old Arseni, who went to the concert with his mother Irina Venteneyeva. The SHOT network on Telegram published on Sunday a photograph of Arseni, who sent her to his grandmother shortly before the concert began, along with the appeals of the “difficult retired” to help her find him. His mother had already been confirmed to be dead, writing SHOT. In the photo, Arseni poses wearing a black hooded sweatshirt, in front of a Picnic poster, which, according to SHOT, was his favorite band. On Monday, the network wrote that Arseni’s body was found and identified by his relatives.