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Gunmen Take Over Moscow Theatre, Hold 700, ThreatenOCTOBER 23, 2002 · 11:40
Chechen militants seized a Moscow theatre and held more than seven hundred people for three days, threatening to detonate bombs if the government withdrew its troops from Chechnya. On the fourth day the government introduced gas through the ventilation, and everyone in the building died.
THE THEATRE. IT IS A THEATRE. THAT IS WHAT MADE IT USABLE.
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THE THEATRE. IT IS A THEATRE. THAT IS WHAT MADE IT USABLE.
MOSCOW, October 26 -- The hostage crisis in the Dubrovka theatre entered its fourth day this morning with the government refusing the demand that Russian troops withdraw from Chechnya, and the hostages still inside the building, where medical supplies began running out yesterday.
There have been reports throughout the week that a large number of the hostages are not hostages but participants. Nobody has explained how that would be arranged, and at least one official has said privately that it is a way of describing a situation nobody wants to define.
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