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More Former Hostages Released from Hospital in Moscow

Ninety-nine former hostages held by Chechen gunmen at a Moscow theater, including one child, had been released from hospital in the past 24 hours, a spokesman for the city health committee said Tuesday.


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Ninety-nine former hostages held by Chechen gunmen at a Moscow theater, including one child, had been released from hospital in the past 24 hours, a spokesman for the city health committee said Tuesday.

A total of 338 freed hostages have returned home, while 317 others, including eight children, remained hospitalized with 27 of them in serious condition, the spokesman was quoted by Itar-Tass news agency as saying.

But none of the children was in grave condition, he added.

Russian special forces ended the siege of a Moscow theater early Saturday, where more than 800 people had been held hostage since Wednesday evening by some 50 Chechen rebels who demanded an end to the war in Chechnya.

The special forces killed most of the Chechen rebels, and rescued more than 700 hostages.

The latest death toll among the hostages was 117. Medical officials said all but one of the dead were killed by a special gas used by the special forces to knock out the attackers before they storming into the theater.

Deputy Moscow Mayor Lyudmila Shvetsova said 108 bodies of the dead had been identified, while some 10 families still had no reliable information on the fate of their loved ones.

Russian Interior Minister Boris Gryzlov said Tuesday that several dozen people had been detained for suspected involvement in the hostage drama.

"Interior agencies are currently taking unprecedented measures to uncover a terrorist network. Several dozen people have been detained on suspicion of their involvement in the hostage-taking raid," he said.


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