Chechen rebels continued to fight Russian troops and conduct terrorist attacks . In October 2002 , 40 – 50 Chechen rebels seized a Moscow theater and took about 900 civilians hostage . The crisis ended with 117 hostages and up to 50 rebels dead , mostly due to an unknown aerosol pumped throughout the building by Russian special forces to incapacitate the people inside
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Moscow theater hostage crisis
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