23 October 2002

Wednesday

2002-10-23

Events
Around 40 to 50 armed Chechen terrorists seize the Dubrovka Theatre in Moscow, taking approximately 850–900 people as hostages.

The terrorists threatened to kill the hostages unless Russian forces were immediately and unconditionally withdrawn from Chechnya giving a deadline of one week, after which they would start killing the hostages. Bt the end of the siege four days later 133 hostages and all 40 militants were killed.