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Scores of men assumed to be skinheads attacked a crowd of about 3,000 people at a rock concert in central Russia on Sunday, beating them with clubs, media reports said, according to AP.
Dozens of people were left bloodied and dazed in the attack, television and news agencies reported, and state
news channel Rossiya-24 said a 14-year-old girl was killed at the concert in Miass, 900 miles (1,400 kilometers) east of Moscow; however, according to RFE/RL, ITAR-Tass news agency quoted Chelyabinsk Oblast police as saying no one had died in the violence.
ITAR-Tass also quoted police as saying 15 people suspected of carrying out the attack in the city of Miass had been detained and were being questioned.
Fourteen ambulances were called to the scene, Rossiya-24 said, citing witness accounts. The motive for the attack was not known, and authorities couldn’t be reached for comment. The ITAR-Tass agency said local police had refused comment.
Many of Russia’s top rock acts were attending the “Tornado” rock festival, the agency said.