ISIS releases bodycam footage of Moscow shooting showing attackers slitting man's throat

The Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISIS-K), which claimed responsibility for the Moscow Crocus concert hall attack that claimed over 133 lives, has released a bodycam footage of the attack showing gunmen opening fire on several people as he entered the concert hall.

The video was released on the Telegram channels of ISIS-affiliated news agency Amaq. To send the video via  the official channels, the attackers should have a direct link to ISIS.  

US media house CNN has geolocated the video to the concert hall, adding that the identifying metadata has been erased.

The footage spanning one minute and 31 second shows the close up of one the gunmen opening fire on several people. There were four attackers with their faces blurred and voices distorted, CNN reported.

One attacker is spotted signaling to another gunman ,who then walks past a door where people are hiding and opens fire on them. Bodies and blood are visible on the floor. A certain portion of the concert hall was seen in flames, probably due to the inflammable liquid carried by the attackers. 

The video also shows one of the attackers slitting the throat of a man lying on his back. The footage ends with the four attackers walking away inside the building as smoke can be seen at a distance.

Meanwhile, the Russian state-run media on Saturday released videos of law enforcement agents interrogating three men, suspected of carrying out the concert hall shooting. This comes as Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) earlier said 11 people, including four suspected assailants, have been arrested in connection to the attack on Friday.

In one of the interrogation videos, shared by the RIA Novosti news agency, a man could be seen lying face-down on the ground as another man, possibly an interrogator, held him by his hair so that he faced the camera. The interrogator is heard asking the detainee: "What did you do in Turkey?" 

"There [in Turkey] my documents expired, I crossed the border here," the detainee said, possibly referring to his passport. He then identified himself as Shamsutdin Fariddun, adding that he was born on Sept. 17, 1998. 

"What did you do in Crocus [City Hall]?" the man holding Fariddun’s head asked in the video, referring to the location of the mass shooting. "We shot... people... for money," Fariddun replied, adding that he was promised 1 million rubles ($10,800) to carry out the attack, half of which he claimed to have already received by card transfer. He added that he did not know the identity of the individuals who paid him to carry out the attack but said that they had contacted him on the messaging app Telegram. 

Another man, which The Moscow Times identified as a native of Tajikistan, was seen being interrogated through an interpreter, who spoke off-camera.  The man claims he was living in a hostel with the other suspected assailants and had contact with "individuals by the names of Abdullo and Muhammad."

Another video shows a man, detained by law enforcement agents, identifying himself as Rajab Alizadeh. He was asked by the interrogator about where he disposed off his weapons.

Alizadeh replies: "Somewhere along the road." Alizadeh's face and shirt were covered in blood and head was seen covered in bandage. An unverified graphic video had earlier done rounds on social media showing  Alizadeh lying face down on the ground as Russian law enforcement agents cut off his ear. This could probably explain the bandages on his ears.