Television pictures showed one of the hostages being carried out on a stretcher at about 2 a.m. (6 p.m. EDT Friday). Two ambulances drove up to the theater before the hostages were driven away.
10:00 p.m. eastern
Just in from AP:
- Two male hostages were killed and a male and female wounded early Saturday in the ongoing standoff at a Moscow theater said Pavel Kudryabtsev, an official at the command center.
CBC:
- Russian officials say Chechen rebels in a Moscow theater killed two male hostages and wounded two others early Saturday.
The report came just after reporters heard a second burst of sporadic gunfire and explosions around the theatre where the rebels are holding as many as 600 Russians hostage.
The second set of noises occurred about 5.40 a.m Saturday morning Moscow time, just before the dawn deadline the rebels set. They said they would begin to shoot hostages then unless Russia agreed to pull its army out of Chechnya.
Earlier Saturday morning, about 3 a.m. local time, there was a small explosion in the theatre and sounds like shots. There was no explanation and no other developments.
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