New Islamic State videos back claim it carried out Moscow concert hall attack

People line up to lay flowers at a makeshift memorial to the victims of the shooting attack set up outside the Crocus City Hall concert venue near Moscow — People lay flowers outside the Crocus City Hall venue. Photograph: Maxim Shemetov/Reuters

The men were caught in the southern Bryansk region, where authorities said they disabled their vehicle, and then apprehended several of the suspects as they fled into a nearby forest. New videos have been published showing Russian security forces interrogating the men, at least one of whom spoke Tajik during an interrogation. Tajikistan’s foreign ministry initially denied that the suspects were citizens of the country.

In a phone call on Sunday, Putin and the Tajikistan leader, Emomali Rahmon, “noted that security services and relevant agencies of Russia and Tajikistan are working closely in countering terrorism, and this work will be intensified”.

Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP) has previously been reported to have recruited