Lists of the 95 missing are available to the Russian emergency services, but they also put them together based on inquiries from relatives on social networks. “These lists include people whose relatives have not been able to contact them since the terrorist attack, but at the same time they are not on the lists of wounded and dead,” Reuters quoted the Russian Baza as saying.
“Some of these people have perished but have not yet been identified,” Baza said.
According to Russian investigators, the attack was carried out by four shooters originally from Tajikistan using Kalashnikov assault rifles and Molotov cocktails. More than 500 fired cartridges were found at the crime scene. The shooting began as 6,200 people were waiting for a concert by rock band Picnic. After the subsequent fire, the roof of the building collapsed. According to a source from the Russian emergency services, based on security camera footage, it can be estimated that more than 200 people could still be in the building before the roof collapsed.
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In the days after the attack, relatives and friends of the possible victims flooded Russian social networks with requests for help in finding them. Most of them are gathered on Telegram in the chat “Crocus. Help Center”. It is there that names that are not found in the official list of victims often appear.
Concertgoers and Crocus City Hall employees are among the missing, their families now waiting almost a week after the attack for their bodies to be found rather than news of a miraculous escape.
This is how, for example, the closely watched search for fifteen-year-old Arsenije ended. His grandmother shared a photo on social media that her grandson sent her directly from the hall just before the attack began. She stated in the caption that he was missing, while his mother’s name was already among the victims by then. Arsenij’s name appeared on the list of victims only on Monday.
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