Nine detained in Tajikistan in relation to Moscow concert hall attack
Al Jazeera
A Russian court meanwhile charged one more suspect in last week’s deadly attack on Crocus City Hall.
Tajikistan’s state security service has detained nine people for suspected contact with the perpetrators of last week’s attack by gunmen on a suburban Moscow concert hall that killed 144 people, Russian state media reported.
“Nine residents of the Vakhdat district were detained for contact with the persons who committed the terrorist attack at Crocus City Hall on March 22,” the RIA Novosti news agency reported on Friday, citing information from an unnamed source in Tajikistan’s special services, who said that Russian security forces were also involved in the operation to detain the suspects.
Vakhdat lies east of the Tajik capital, Dushanbe.
Those detained are also suspected of having connections with ISIL (ISIS), according to RIA Novosti.
This came as a court in Moscow charged another suspect in the deadly concert hall attack – Lutfulloi Nazrimad – and ruled that should be held in custody until at least May 22, pending investigation and trial.
