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Hostage deaths blamed on gas
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Hostage deaths blamed on gas
115 victims of siege at theater didn't die from captors' bullets,
Moscow official says
By SUSAN B. GLASSER AND PETER BAKER Washington Post
Monday, October 28, 2002
Moscow -- The gas that Russian authorities pumped into a theater
to knock out Chechen guerrillas during a pre-dawn commando raid on
Saturday killed at least 115 of the hostages in a tragic climax to
the siege, Moscow's chief medical officer disclosed Sunday.
Just one or...
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