The Moscow Theatre Siege Thursday 15 January, 9pm, BBC Two.

In October 2002, Chechen terrorists took a thousand people hostage in a Moscow theatre and threatened to kill them. The problem was how to get them out alive. A bloodbath seemed inevitable.

Three days later Russian special forces stormed the theatre using a secret gas to knock everybody out. But 129 hostages died - apparently killed by the very gas that was meant to save them. Horizon investigates the mystery substance, and why so many died.

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[Edited on 1/9/2004 by SE7EN]

[Edited on 1/9/2004 by SE7EN]