NEWS: Moscow Theater Siege Ends, 67 Hostages Die

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SATURDAY, OCT 26, 2002

Moscow Theater Siege Ends, 67 Hostages Die

Medical personnel carry an unidentified person out of the theater where hundreds of hostages were being held by Chechen rebels.

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Sixty-seven hostages were killed when Russian special forces stormed a Moscow theater at dawn on Saturday to end a three-day siege by Chechen rebels.

Deputy Interior Minister Vladimir Vasilyev said 750 hostages held since Wednesday night by the heavily armed guerrillas in the capital had been saved in the operation.

Nearly all the rebels, 34, were killed.

"We saved more than 750 people...67 were lost," Vasilyev told reporters outside the theater. He added that no children were killed in the operation. ...

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