Fri, Oct 25, 2002 - Page 1 News List

Chechen group takes 700 hostages

MOSCOW HORROR A self-styled suicide group took a theater audience hostage as it called for Russian forces to leave Chechnya; one person has been shot dead

REUTERS , MOSCOW

"They have grenades and they have guns," Moscow city police chief spokesman Valery Gribakin said.

Putin called off a trip due to begin yesterday that would have taken him to Portugal via Berlin. He also pulled out of the APEC summit in Mexico.

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