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Russian investigators say the death toll from the shooting at a Moscow-region concert hall has reached 93, as a top security official said 11 people, including four of the suspected gunmen, have been detained in Russia’s worst terrorist attack in nearly two decades, RFE/RL reported.

The national Investigative Committee announced the higher toll in a statement on March 23, more than 12 hours after camouflaged-clad attackers burst into the venue on Moscow’s outskirts and opened fire on people waiting for a concert to begin.

More than 120 people were wounded and hospitalized in various conditions, health officials said.

The attack, which the Islamic State militant group claimed responsibility for, was Russia’s worst terrorist attack in nearly two decades.

In its statement, the Investigative Committee said the deaths were caused by gunshot wounds and asphyxiation apparently from burning materials. The attackers used an unspecified flammable substance to set fire to the venue, the committee said, which burned part of the roof of the Crocus City venue.

Meanwhile, Aleksander Bortnikov, the director of the Federal Security Service, or FSB, was quoted by Russian news agencies as saying 11 people had been detained, including four of the suspected gunmen.

No further details were released.

The Islamic State militant group said it carried out the attack, in a statement released a few hours after the violence erupted at the Crocus City concert hall, where a popular Soviet-era rock band prepared to perform.