Four perpetrators of a terrorist attack at the Crocus City Hall concert hall in Moscow a week ago, which killed at least 143 people, fled the scene of the attack after some of their assault rifles suddenly stopped working, the Islamic State jihadist group said. (ISIS), which claimed responsibility for the attack, writes EFE.

“A sudden weapon malfunction forced them to flee the scene quickly, triggering a grueling search operation involving Russian ground and air forces,” said an article published in the ISIS-affiliated Al-Naba weekly magazine, published in slaughterhouse on a jihadist website. media channels of the group.

Three of them were instructed to shoot directly from machine guns at the people in the concert hall, and the fourth to set fire to the space with bombs and incendiary materials in order to “complicate any rescue operation,” the article says. writes Agerpres, with reference to EFE.

“Approximately 200 Christians were shot before some of the guns stopped working, but they did not stop their attack and continued to kill everyone in their path before leaving the hall,” the author of the article claimed, citing ISIS sources.

He admits that the four attackers were “besieged” in the forest while trying to escape.

According to him, the Russian authorities “were forced to blame this attack on their opponents in the West” in order to “not admit their great failure to the militants” of the terrorist organization.

“Moscow’s attack does not need to be justified”

On Thursday, the spokesman for the Islamic State (ISIS) jihadist group, Abu Huzaif al-Ansari, called for separate attacks in Europe and the United States to support Muslims in the war in Gaza, and congratulated Moscow on those responsible for last Friday’s attack.

Al-Ansari also said that after an attack in Iran in January, one of the worst in its history, that killed more than 90 people, the Islamic State turned against “Russia, the crusader,” a term the group uses to describe its Christians. .

A spokesman for the “Islamic State” called the attack in Moscow “a bloody attack by a group of lions in the caliphate” to “take revenge on Muslims and discipline the infidels.”

A jihadist group claimed responsibility for the attack on the Crocus City Hall concert hall, 20 kilometers from central Moscow, which killed at least 143 people.

“We don’t need to give legal explanations when we attack a country that has always fought against Muslims, before and now. And we continue to capture and kill their soldiers in Syria, and before that we destroyed their plane in Sinai,” he added.

The Islamic State cites Russia’s intervention in the war in Syria since 2015, as well as the downing of a Russian Metrojet plane from the Egyptian city of Sharm el-Sheikh to St. Petersburg, also in 2015, which ISIS claimed . more than 220 people died as a result of the attack.

Russia claims that the West and Ukraine are behind the terrorist attack in Moscow, not ISIS.