The disturbing dance of the flashing lights, aligned as far as the eye can see, makes one dizzy when arriving at the scene of the carnage.
The blue and red contrast with the polished black of the roof of Crocus City Hall, charred and almost completely collapsed.
These dozens of ambulances and law enforcement vehicles, kept at a distance from journalists by a few barricades, bear witness to the scale of the drama that played out Friday evening.
The toll at that time showed 40 deaths;
it was going to get much heavier during the day on Saturday.
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In the taxi to the scene, Farangis, 24, of Tajik nationality like so many other drivers in greater Moscow, said he did not see what happened.
“I don't like listening to the news, there's only negative, horror
,” says the young man, who has lived in Moscow for four years.
He may not have known, a few hours later, that four of his compatriots from Tajikistan – a small Central Asian state bordering Afghanistan…
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