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Flowers are seen left at the scene of the gun attack at the Crocus City Hall concert hall in Krasnogorsk, outside Moscow. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images
Flowers are seen left at the scene of the gun attack at the Crocus City Hall concert hall in Krasnogorsk, outside Moscow. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images

Russia arrests four suspected gunmen as toll from concert massacre climbs

MOSCOW,  (Reuters) – Russia said today it had arrested 11 people including four suspected gunmen in connection with a shooting rampage that killed 143 people in a concert hall near Moscow, the deadliest attack in Russia for 20 years.

FILE PHOTO: A Muslim boy reads the Koran at a madrasa or religious school on the first day of the holy month of Ramadan in the northern Indian city of Mathura August 23, 2009. REUTERS/K. K. Arora/File Photo
FILE PHOTO: A Muslim boy reads the Koran at a madrasa or religious school on the first day of the holy month of Ramadan in the northern Indian city of Mathura August 23, 2009. REUTERS/K. K. Arora/File Photo

India court effectively bans madrasas in big state before election

NEW DELHI,  (Reuters) – A court in India essentially banned Islamic schools in the country’s most populous state, a move that could further distance many Muslims from Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu-nationalist government ahead of national elections.

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