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| Man with ‘explosive device’ takes hostages at bank in downtown Moscow | |
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| A man has taken four people hostage at a bank in downtown Moscow, local media report, citing security officials. Police are in talks with the hostage-taker, who reportedly has an explosive device. | A man has taken four people hostage at a bank in downtown Moscow, local media report, citing security officials. Police are in talks with the hostage-taker, who reportedly has an explosive device. |
| The incident is taking place at a Citibank office on Bolshaya Nikitskaya Street, according to TASS. | |
| Three of the bank’s staff members and one customer are inside the building, where the man is threatening to blow himself up, TASS reports, citing the Interior Ministry. | Three of the bank’s staff members and one customer are inside the building, where the man is threatening to blow himself up, TASS reports, citing the Interior Ministry. |
| According to some media reports, the man first took seven people hostage but then let three women go, one after another. | |
| Other media outlets say the man took five people hostage and is now holding two of them, after releasing three women. | |
| Police have reportedly identified the man involved in the hostage siege. | |
| A negotiator has entered the office and a number of high-ranking police officials have also arrived at the scene. Moscow Police Commissioner Anatoly Yakunin has personally entered into negotiations with the hostage-taker, TASS reports, citing a police source. | A negotiator has entered the office and a number of high-ranking police officials have also arrived at the scene. Moscow Police Commissioner Anatoly Yakunin has personally entered into negotiations with the hostage-taker, TASS reports, citing a police source. |
| A Rapid Deployment Police Task Force detachment, Russian National Guard units and Federal Security Service (FSB) officers were deployed to the scene. | |
| The area around the bank office has been blocked by police. | The area around the bank office has been blocked by police. |
| The man entered the bank office and “put up a poster saying he was demanding a negotiator.” He then asked to call the police, bank employees who managed to escape from the building told TASS. | |
| They added that the man threatened to set off an explosive device, and that he said he had nothing against the bank itself. His motives are yet unclear. | They added that the man threatened to set off an explosive device, and that he said he had nothing against the bank itself. His motives are yet unclear. |
| Citibank “is working with the law enforcement authorities to resolve the situation” at the office “as soon as possible,” a spokesperson for the bank told TASS, confirming the incident. | Citibank “is working with the law enforcement authorities to resolve the situation” at the office “as soon as possible,” a spokesperson for the bank told TASS, confirming the incident. |