Nine people detained in Tajikistan over links to Crocus city hall attackers

Nine residents of a suburb of Dushanbe have been detained over links to the terrorists who attacked the Crocus City Hall concert venue near Moscow last week, a Tajik intelligence source told Sputnik on Friday.

“Nine residents of the Vahdat district were detained for connections with the people who committed the terrorist attack in Crocus City Hall on March 22 and over links to the IS [the Islamic State, banned in Russia] terrorist organisation,” the source said.