Deaths possibly also because of locked doors: allegations at the Moscow concert hall. Over 130 dead and 180 seriously injured.
Now there are more serious allegations against the organizer, because the high number of victims could also be due to locked emergency exits. 28 bodies alone were found in a toilet and 14 more in the stairwell of an emergency exit. A video recorded by a survivor on his cell phone also shows people desperately shaking the handles of the closed emergency exits as they try to escape. The owner of Crocus City Hall, Aras Agalarov, denies that the emergency exits were locked. But the issue of blocked or locked doors is a sensitive one in Russia.