Man taking hostages in Moscow apartment detained

Man taking hostages in Moscow apartment detained
# 24 May 2018 23:24 (UTC +04:00)

The man, who took several people hostage in an apartment in Moscow’s east earlier on Thursday, has been detained, APA reports quoting TASS.

He wounded himself with a knife and was taken to hospital, the press service of the Russian Interior Ministry’s Moscow department told TASS on Thursday.

"A woman and a child in the apartment were not injured," an officer said. One of the hostages, a man, has died of injuries.

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