Welcome to the beat, I am Ari Melborough and we are following breaking news.

Reports of this terrorist attack on the outskirts of Moscow.

Here we have live pictures. This is the scene, a very popular local

concert hall, one a.m. local time. There's still the emergency response.

Russian state media, that is our source for this, says 40 people have already been counted among the casualties that's 40

people killed in over a hundred injured there are no official claims of

responsibility that have been verified at this hour this is a very significant attack, especially when you think

about the wider context of the region and some unrest in the region. Russian news reports

state that three gunman and camouflage opened fire with automatic weapons and through explosives that triggered

a massive blaze inside the hall.

There are some accounts, video and social media that gives some insight into what we think

occurred.

This attack comes just five days after Vladimir Putin

announced a six-year term as president that would continue in what they call within Russia

an election. Many observers would call it something else not a free

and fair democratic process this also comes just about a month after the very

mysterious death of the main opposition leader that Putin had faced Alexi Navali.

And it's also, as mentioned, about three years into the overall tensions in the region

after Russia invaded Ukraine.

U.S. embassy had sent out a warning about gathering in large groups as recently as two weeks ago,

given some concern or some level of alert or intelligence they had about what could happen there. This is one of the largest

attacks inside Russia that we have seen in some time and we want to go right to our

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