Death Toll in Moscow Hostage Crisis Rises to 128: Officials

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Death Toll in Moscow Hostage Crisis Rises to 128: Officials

Russian officials said Thursday that the death toll in last month's deadly hostage crisis in Moscow reached 128, the Interfax news agency reported.

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Russian officials said Thursday that the death toll in last month's deadly hostage crisis in Moscow reached 128, the Interfax news agency reported.

The Moscow prosecutor's office issued a list containing names of 120 Russians and eight foreigners killed in the crisis.

Five hostages, all of them citizens of Russia, had died of gunshot wounds.

Identification efforts for four dead hostages could take longerthan expected, the prosecutors said.

Some 50 heavily armed Chechen militants seized a Moscow theateron Oct. 23, holding some 800 audience hostage to press their demand to end the Chechen war. Russian special forces stormed the theater three days later, and at least 118 people were killed by the opiate-based gas used to knock out the attackers.

As of Wednesday, 98 of the freed hostages remained in hospitals,including six in grave condition, the agency reported.

In addition, nine officers of the Federal Security Service's Alpha commando that stormed the building were also in hospitals, Interfax quoted Sergei Goncharov, chairman of the Alpha Veterans Association, as saying. He said the hospitalization was probably aresult of the special gas.

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