"A terrible tragedy has occurred." Owner of Crocus City Hall comments on attack on concert hall for the first time

The owner of Crocus City Hall, businessman Araz Agalarov, arrived at the concert hall destroyed in the terrorist attack on the evening of March 23. Agalarov Sr. was accompanied by his son Emin, RBC reports.

Araz Agalarov, commenting on the incident, told the RBC TV channel: "A terrible tragedy has occurred and it has already been said that nothing like this has happened in the last 20 years ." He called the incident inexplicable from the point of view of universal human values.

The businessman also said that the armed men entered the concert hall not through the doors, but through a window of the neighboring exhibition center. One of the security guards at Crocus City Hall was killed, another was wounded. "These aren't even security guards. We call them "controllers," " Agalarov said.

• According to the latest official data at the time of publication of this article, 133 people were killed and about 200 were injured as a result of the terrorist attack at Crocus City Hall. The search operation in the destroyed concert hall continues. The list of victims is not final.
• A group of armed men stormed the Crocus City Hall, where the group Piknik was scheduled to perform, on the evening of March 22. They opened fire on those who came to the concert and then set the hall on fire. The fire in the Crocus City Hall was only extinguished after almost a day.