A woman died Sunday from the effects of an opiate-based gas that was used to break the Moscow theater siege last month, pushing the civilian death toll from that incident to 129 people (see GSN, Nov. 19).

Authorities pumped the gas through the theater’s ventilation system at the beginning of the Oct. 26 raid to disable 50 Chechen hostage-takers.  Eight of the hostages from the incident remained in hospitals yesterday (Associated Press/Canoe Online CNews, Nov. 25).

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