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A lot in light of these terror attacks theres always a discussion that follows up which is could anything have been done to prevent this could things have been done differently even one death is too many and certainly thats thats thats one side of the argument but in terms of lone wolf attacks and this is a increasingly looking like a lone wolf attack initially reports of 3 attackers thats now been confirmed down to one. Just how possible is it for the Security Services to do anything i mean the men who gave their lives today preventing further civilian casualties acted quickly enough certainly could more have been done though do you think or is this this sort of these sorts of incidents the risk of such incidents has just become a part of todays reality. Well we have to ask also for political dissent when we ask for ways to make our public life saver again because the Security Forces cannot solve problems that have been created long before. By. Lets say if we look at the situation in
Other thanks for joining us this is International Coming to you from central moscow we start this hour with our breaking news story which is that numerous shots have been fired in the immediate vicinity of the federal Security Service building one person has been. That this video reportedly shows the shooter the moments of the attack she just thought to be acting alone his identity is yet to be confirmed the area around the scene of the f. S. B. Headquarters has been cordoned off and the following coming up now is footage of the moment of the shoot. Weve spoken to eyewitnesses who described that moment of the attack. But is i was sitting with my friends at a bar when the shooting began and it was the sound of a kalashnikov Assault Rifle and i know what it sounds like my friends were like oh it must be firecrackers but i told them no way its not firecrackers and then we saw people running down the street it was scary 1st we saw people running and then a swat team armed with Assault Rifl
Boutiques and Office Building sand when the incident occurred at just after 6 pm people are just about says leave theyre all workplaces and go shopping once again theres a huge toy store here and had their sale and being more well flacco better word successful there would have been a lot more casualties right now what we do know is that sell one if a speech officer had been a killed by the assailant sent out 5 people were wounded and said theyre being treated at the hospital right now and according to the information that were getting our one of those people is a civilian and 4 people off from a Law Enforcement now the incident occurred like as said just after 6 pm when people were sitting in restaurants and to doing their shopping at the beginning. They. Didnt really understand what was happening because nobody expects this kind of thing to happen right in the center of a major capital and see if you looked at the previous footage she might have seen how people were laughing at said w
Much worse from a civilian point of view on had to be simply targeted a Christmas Market using an automatic rifle we wouldnt be talking about 2 fatalities in the war 5 injuries would be talking multiple fatalities and perhaps dozens of injuries so its very telling that the attacker chose perhaps the most heavily guarded building the most heavily guarded area aside from the kremlin or the white house perhaps in moscow he very much knew what would happen and indeed the timing of this event how quickly it wrapped up how many lives were saved by the actions of the Security Service as well is something is one Silver Lining as you quite rightly say if you just look back through i mean russia had its fair share of terrorist attacks as. You know developed countries if you look back 2010 moscow metro bombings the least 40 dead over 100 injured 2011 domodedovo airport bombing 37 killed 2070. St petersburg metro bombing 15 died we were very sadly used to multiple fatalities when youre talking abo