Wednesday, 23. October 2002
Topic: - on October 23, 2002 at 9:06:31 PM CEST
BREAKING NEWS
Gunmen seize Moscow theater. Theater director says about 1,000 people were inside. Details to come.
-- A group of about 20 armed gunmen has seized a Moscow movie theatre and are holding the audience, believed to be several hundred people, hostage, Interfax reports.
CNN's Ryan Chilcote says that Russia's elite Alpha Group of security troops have been dispatched to the scene, marking it out as a serious incident.
Interfax, one of whose reporters was in the theatre at the time, said the gunmen had allowed members of the audience to make phone calls and children to be released.
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