UN Condemns ISIS Attack In Russia's Moscow, White House Talks Terrible Terror

DOC/Curcus City Hall/UNSPLASH/Klaus Wright

JAKARTA - The United Nations (UN) condemns the deadly attack that killed 40 people in Krasnogorsk, Moscow, Russia. A brutal attack on the concert arena is claimed to have been carried out by ISIS.

Members of the Security Council strongly condemn the heinous and coward terrorist attacks at the concert building in Krasnogorsk, Moscow, according to a UN statement quoted by Reuters on Saturday, March 23.

Meanwhile, White House spokesman John Kirby said the deadly ISIS attack on Moscow was horrific.

Our thoughts are clearly on the victims of this horrific shooting attack.

Reported by Reuters on Saturday, March 23, ISIS claimed responsibility for the attack near the City Hall of Crocus before the performance of the rock band, as reported by news agency Amaq.

Russian media published a photo of two suspected attackers in a white car. The gunmen are reportedly still at large.

The attack on the Crocus City Hall area, about 20 km (12 miles) from the Kremlin, comes just two weeks after the US embassy in Russia warned it had plans to carry out an attack in Moscow.

Hours before the warning was issued by the embassy, the Russian Federal Security Service/FSB said it had thwarted an attack on its defenses in Moscow by the ISIS outlook in Afghanistan, known as ISIS-Khorasan, or ISIS-K, and sought to establish caliphates across Afghanistan, Pakistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Iran.

Verified videos show people rushing towards the exit when shots repeatedly echoed in the middle of screams. Another video shows a number of men shooting at a group of people. Some of the victims were lying covered in blood.

"Suddenly there was gunfire behind us," an eyewitness, who asked not to be named, told Reuters.