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Gas Killed 116 in Moscow Raid By BURT HERMAN, Associated Press Writer MOSCOW (AP) - Moscow's chief physician said Sunday that all but one of the 117 hostages who died during an operation to free hundreds of captives from a city theater were killed by the effects of gas used to subdue their captors. The Interfax news agency quoted Andrei Seltsovsky as saying that one person died from bullet wounds during Saturday's assault. It was the first time that a Russian official identified the cause of death of most of the victims. The gas left many hostages unconscious, and they had to be carried from the theater suffering from symptoms of poisoning. Authorities have not said what was in the gas. An anesthesiologist, Yevgeny Yevdokimov, said the fatal effects of the unspecified gasses were exacerbated by the weakened condition of the hostages, who had spent 58 hours in captivity under high stress and with little food or water, Interfax reported. Seltsovky told Interfax that 646 people were in the hospital, including 150 who were in intensive care wards and 45 who were in very serious condition. He said the dead included 63 men and 54 women. Moscow hospitals on Sunday began releasing some former hostages, but most were being kept for additional treatment. Outside one of the hospitals treating survivors the wail of sirens mixed with the cries of relatives as doctors released some of the 750 who were rescued. Anxious hostage relatives waited for word on their loved ones after a special forces raid on the theater Saturday killed most of the hostage-takers. The freed captives were taken to hospitals, most of them suffering from the effects of knockout gas that was pumped through the building before it was stormed by Russian special forces. Some hospitals posted complete or partial lists Sunday afternoon of those being treated, but information remained fragmented. A U.S. Embassy spokesman said its workers were trying to find which hospital one
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