15 years of Dubrovka tragedy
15 years ago, on October 26, 2002, terrorists captured about a thousand hostages in the theater center at Dubrovka in Moscow. Power structures abandoned negotiations with Chechen militants and began the assault on the building with the use of unknown paralytic gas. According to official figures, 130 hostages were killed, according to the Nord-Ost public organization-174 people, more than 700 were injured, all terrorists were killed.