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Former owner starts shooting, kills 1 in Moscow factory building – police to media Ex-owner of Moscow factory embarks on shooting spree over lost business, kills 1
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A shooter has reportedly gunned down a business rival at a Moscow confectionary factory and remains at large, police told local media. Several people have been taken hostage, a law enforcement source told RIA Novosti. The ex-owner of a Moscow factory has reportedly gunned down a person during a quarrel with a business rival and remains at large, police sources told local media. It has been officially confirmed that at least one person is dead.
Police sources speaking to various Russian media outlets are currently giving conflicting information about the incident. A director of a confectionary factory in southeastern Moscow reportedly opened fire on a business rival Wednesday morning. Initial reports suggested that the gunman had taken hostages, but police later told Russian news agencies that that was not the case. 
A director of the factory in southeastern Moscow reportedly opened fire on a business rival Wednesday morning. One man was shot dead and at least two more people were reportedly injured. The assailant took several people hostage and the police are trying establish contact with him, a police source told local media. Police sources speaking to various Russian media outlets are currently giving conflicting information about the incident. One man was shot dead and at least two more people were reportedly injured. The police are trying establish contact with him, a police source told local media.
The area has been cordoned off. Radio station Business FM managed to reach the alleged assailant, Ivan Averyanov, by phone. Averyanov says he was deprived of the factory and he had been struggling to get it back for four years. The shooter, who is surrounded by police, has reportedly barricaded himself in and is threatening to “fight to the end.”
Several bailiffs might be among the injured, according to the Mash news telegram channel; they were reportedly trying to recover the factory’s substantial debts. The area has been cordoned off. Several bailiffs might be among the injured, according to the Mash news telegram channel. The Moscow branch of the Federal Bailiff Service told Interfax their staff were at the factory, but nobody had been injured. 
The Moscow branch of the Federal Bailiff Service told Interfax their staff were at the factory, but nobody had been injured. RIA Novosti cited the central Federal Bailiff Service as saying that their staff were not carrying out duties at the site.