Global & Disaster Medicine

On October 23, 2002, about 50 Chechen rebels storm a Moscow theater, taking up to 700 people hostage.

History.com

“….After a 57-hour-standoff at the Palace of Culture, during which two hostages were killed, Russian special forces surrounded and raided the theater on the morning of October 26. Later it was revealed that they had pumped a powerful narcotic gas into the building, knocking nearly all of the terrorists and hostages unconscious before breaking into the walls and roof and entering through underground sewage tunnels. Most of the guerrillas and 120 hostages were killed during the raid….”

 


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