MOSCOW, March 29. /TASS/. The Union of Armenians in Russia has informed that one of its countrymen, 35-year-old Karen Yengibaryan, who was nearby at the time of the terrorist attack in Crocus City Hall and rushed to help people from the burning building, not stopping until the morning, has died.
"Putting his life at risk, he helped people: he pulled them out of the smoke, brought them to see the doctors, and then back again. He gave some of his clothes to one of the survivors. It was not until morning that he came back home. As a result, Karen breathed in lots of carbon monoxide fumes and also caught a cold. He was hospitalized with a case of ‘acute respiratory infection’," the union wrote on its Telegram channel.
Yengibaryan’s condition worsened in the days after the attack, and eventually he passed away.
On the evening of March 22, a terrorist attack targeted the Crocus City Hall music venue in Krasnogorsk, Moscow Region, just outside the Moscow city limits. According to the latest data, 144 people were killed and 382 people were injured, 217 of whom received outpatient care. Russia declared a nationwide day of mourning for the first time since 2018. All four gunmen were apprehended in the Bryansk Region, southwest of Moscow, apparently while attempting to seek refuge by crossing the nearby Ukrainian border. Another five people suspected of involvement in the terrorist attack have been detained. The Russian Investigative Committee said that investigators had found evidence of the perpetrators’ connections to Ukrainian nationalists.