China Daily
Friday 15th March, 2013
/enpproperty– MOSCOW – Four people taken hostage by a gunman in the Southern Russian city of Astrakhan have been released, local investigators said Thursday. The hostages were released with the help of police after being taken hostage by a gunman in the city’s downtown at about 14:00 Moscow time (1000 GMT), local police told Interfax news agency. The 25-year-old gunman, who was identified as Alexander Kuptsov, had held two young girls in a classroom at the Volga-Caspian marine fishing industry college. He had claimed to be armed with weapons and explosives, the Investigative Committee of A…
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