Theatre siege in Moscow

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Warning: this episode contains descriptions of violence.

More than a hundred people died and scores more were wounded on Friday night in a terrorist attack on a concert hall near Moscow — the deadliest such attack in Russia in decades.

Anton Troianovski, the ...

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In this special edition, we will look at the attack on a concert hall near Moscow and its aftermath. Around 100 people, including children, are dead and over 100 others injured in one of the worst attacks in Russia over the past decades.