{"id":73246,"date":"2025-08-04T20:30:52","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T11:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/aug\/04\/suspected-gunmen-go-on-trial-in-moscow-over-concert-hall-terror-attack"},"modified":"2025-08-04T20:30:52","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T11:30:52","slug":"suspected-gunmen-go-on-trial-in-moscow-over-concert-hall-terror-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=73246","title":{"rendered":"Suspected gunmen go on trial in Moscow over concert hall terror attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Islamic State affiliate group have claimed responsibility, though Russian investigators have sought to blame Ukraine<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2025\/aug\/04\/europe-live-ukraine-russia-trump-putin-zelenskyy-live-news-updates\">Europe live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Nineteen people, among them the four suspected gunmen, went on trial in Moscow on Monday over a concert hall attack that claimed 149 lives, one of the worst terrorist attacks in modern Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Four armed men from the former Soviet republic of Tajikistan allegedly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/mar\/23\/survivors-moscow-attack-tell-horror-crocus-city-hall\">stormed the Crocus City Hall<\/a> on the outskirts of Moscow on 22 March last year, opening fire and then setting the building alight, injuring hundreds of people.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/aug\/04\/suspected-gunmen-go-on-trial-in-moscow-over-concert-hall-terror-attack\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamic State affiliate group have claimed responsibility, though Russian investigators have sought to blame UkraineEurope live \u2013 latest updatesNineteen people, among them the four suspected gunmen, went on trial in Moscow on Monday over a concert hall&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3503,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[221,471,419,61,1081,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-islamic-state","category-russia","category-south-and-central-asia","category-tajikistan","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3503"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73246"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73247,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73246\/revisions\/73247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}