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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Pjotr Sauer

Suspected gunmen go on trial in Moscow over concert hall terror attack

The suspects accused of involvement in a terror attack sit in a glass cage, heads bowed, prior to a hearing in the 2nd Western District Military court in Moscow
The gunmen and another 15 people accused of being accomplices were brought before the Moscow court on Monday. Photograph: Pavel Bednyakov/AP

Nineteen people, among them the four suspected gunmen, went on trial in Moscow on Monday over a concert hall attack that claimed 149 lives, one of the worst terrorist attacks in modern Russia.

Four armed men from the former Soviet republic of Tajikistan allegedly stormed the Crocus City Hall on the outskirts of Moscow on 22 March last year, opening fire and then setting the building alight, injuring hundreds of people.

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