(NEWSLINE PAPER),- Three armed attackers opened fire from the audience in the Multecii Hall at the Crocus City Hall in the Moscow region. Russian official media sources TASS and RIA Novosti reported on this terrible incident.
The drawback of this rebel assault is the known number of casualties, for which both injured and dead bodies have been recorded. With automatic guns in hand, the disguised crooks fired exactly at the Crocus City Hall's ground level.
Among the assailants was another one whose goal was to fire the hall by hurling a hand grenade or other form of incendiary weapon inside. Massive mushroom cloud of black smoke was released by the fire. The building seemed to have been completely consumed by flames when it fell.
With lightning speed, the firemen were able to get precisely one hundred individuals out of the blazing building. The immediate evacuation of anyone who might be trapped on the roof or in the upper stories of buildings remains the top priority of rescue operations.
To first aid those impacted by the medical emergency, more than fifty ambulances were dispatched to the town of Krasnogorsk, a nearby municipality of the Moscow region. It is now obvious that the Moscow Regional Ministry of Health will handle any emergency medical requirement that develops.
The mayor offered the families of the departed his sincere sympathies and those of the entire community. All required support would be part of the recovery operations, it was promised. Ironically, the mayor called the occurrence the "terrible tragedy," which suggests that things are really bad.
We witness the physical manifestation of the unpredictable nature of public safety and the need of guaranteeing suitable security planning and administration at the Crocus City market.