In the English city of Birmingham, police are investigating the causes of an incident that occurred on Tuesday evening at a local theater, reports Sky News. During the performance of the play "The Sound of Music" the stage of the theater collapsed. As a result, 10 people were injured. All of them were hospitalized, most of them with various injuries of their arms and legs.

Egyptian authorities have released 900 Islamists, according to Reuters. They are all members of the Islamist group al-Gamaa al-Islamiyya, which is involved in the murder of 57 tourists in 1997 and planning the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. This was announced by sources in the security services on Tuesday. Among them is one of the leaders of the group, Mamdu al-Youssef.

The section of the third transport ring from Spartakovskaya Square to Krasnokazarmennaya Embankment opened on Wednesday. According to Interfax, the ceremony was attended by the head of the Gosstroy of the Russian Federation Nikolai Koshman, the first deputy mayor in the Moscow government Pyotr Aksenov, the prefect of the Central District Gennady Degtev.

On Tuesday evening, the restaurant "Traktir Khlestakov", located on 3rd Frunzenskaya Street, was shelled in Moscow, Gazeta.Ru reports. No one was injured as a result of the shelling. According to employees of the police department of the capital, the message about the shelling of the restaurant was received at about 22.30 Moscow time. The operatives who arrived at the scene found out that the windows of the restaurant "Traktir Khlestakov" were fired with rubber bullets.

Belarusian doctors are conducting clinical trials of a new drug "Alufer" to stop bleeding, ITAR-TASS reports. It was developed for three years by the staff of the Research Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion. According to Svetlana Krivenko, deputy director of the institute, there are no domestic analogues of Alufer at present. With the help of the drug, you can stop any form of bleeding, including internal ones. In some cases, the use of "Alufer" avoids surgical intervention.

The Russian Prosecutor General's Office has not yet received an additional request from Greece in the extradition case of Vladimir Gusinsky, Lenta.ru reports citing Interfax. "The Greek authorities did not request any additional materials on the Gusinsky case," the agency's information and public relations department said on October 1.

The Ministry of Labor is not going to interfere and control the situation around the dismissal of Anastasia Volochkova from the Bolshoi Theater, RIA Novosti reports. This was announced in St. Petersburg by the Minister of Labor and Social Development of the Russian Federation Alexander Pochinok. “We are not going to interfere in the affairs of the Ministry of Culture, the Bolshoi Theatre, and we are not going to control anything.

In St. Petersburg on Wednesday, one of the policemen wounded the day before in Kolpino died, Interfax reports. The second of the victims remains in critical condition. Last Tuesday, police officers stopped a passer-by to check the documents, who in response opened fire on them and disappeared. On the fact of the murder, the Kolpin district prosecutor's office opened a criminal case under Article 105 part 2, RIA Novosti reports.

The former governor of the Kursk region, Alexander Rutskoi, said that he was being summoned to the investigator to be charged with abuse of power. It is reported by "Echo of Moscow" with reference to Interfax. Rutskoy suggests that the activation of the prosecutor's office may be associated with his plans to return to big politics.

The second video message from Chechnya's assistant prosecutor Nadezhda Pogosova, published on Tuesday in Grany.ru, will be included in the criminal case on the fact of her abduction. This was reported to Interfax by Deputy Prosecutor of Chechnya Alexander Nikitin. "Both video messages will be attached to the criminal case as evidence," he said.

In the Northern District of Moscow, two schoolchildren died of viral meningitis, the Vesti.Ru website reports, citing the Stolichnaya newspaper. According to doctors, this is not an epidemic. The two schools where the deceased studied were nevertheless carefully checked, and all lessons began to be held, leaving each class in one room. According to doctors, the causative agent of meningitis is unstable. On a dry surface, the virus dies after two minutes.

In Kazan, a 21-year-old young man was detained on suspicion of robbing an apartment. According to Interfax, the owner of the robbed apartment brought the policemen to the thief. A 30-year-old man, returning from his dacha, found that his apartment had been robbed. An unknown person took out video and household appliances in the amount of about 30 thousand rubles. Police officers who arrived at the crime scene found no evidence that could help the investigation.

An AirTran Airways passenger plane caught fire as it prepared to take off from Boston Airport. According to AP, all passengers on board (31 people) were evacuated. One of them was taken to the hospital complaining of back pain. Flight 771 was supposed to go to Philadelphia. According to the mechanics, the accident could have occurred due to the fact that after starting the engine, the fuel ignited.

The FSB Department for the Kemerovo Region, together with the Department for Combating Organized Crime of the Main Internal Affairs Directorate, uncovered a criminal community consisting of former and current employees of internal affairs units, justice workers in the Kemerovo Region and representatives of criminal structures in Kuzbass.

The leadership of the Republic of Altai decided to evacuate children and patients from the villages most affected by the earthquake, RIA Novosti reports. This decision was made by the head of the republic, Mikhail Lapshin, after assessing the situation in the region.