A standoff with a hostage-taker unfolded in central Moscow on Saturday afternoon, after an assailant holed up at a downtown bank branch. Reports said he was threatening to blow up the building.
Police initially responded to an emergency call from one of Alfa Bank’s employees, who said the man had burst into the building and threatened to detonate a bomb. At least five people, among them employees and customers, were believed to have been inside at the time.
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