9 detained in Tajikistan in connection with Moscow concert hall attack, Russian state media report [Video]

Nine people have been detained by Tajikistan’s state security service over suspected contact with the perpetrators of last week’s attack on a suburban Moscow concert hall that killed 144 people, Russian state news agency RIA Novosti said Friday.Related video above: At least 133 killed, 100+ injured in Russia concert hall attackThe reported arrests came exactly a week after the massacre in the Crocus City Hall, in which gunmen shot people waiting for a show by a popular rock band and then set the building on fire. The four suspected attackers were arrested and identified as Tajik nationals.An affiliate of the Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the attack, the deadliest on Russian soil in years. The Kremlin, however, has insisted that Ukraine and the West had a role, something Kyiv has vehemently denied.RIA Novosti said Friday, citing an unnamed source in Tajikistan’s security services, that those detained in the Central …