‘I started to panic’: survivor of Moscow attack tells of how she escaped gunmen

Margarita Bunova, who was in the concert hall with her husband during the Moscow attack, has told of how she escaped after the gunmen who left at least 133 people dead. ‘It was 7.47pm. I heard a blast, I honestly thought it was a firecracker. I thought that, probably, the artists who came were being greeted by fans. But these crackles… they weren’t stopping, there was screaming, panic,’ she said. She describes how they escaped through an emergency exit with scores of concertgoers who broke out onto the nearby street as the attack was still going on inside