MOSCOW. Oct 29 (Interfax-AVN) - Out of the 117 people killed in the act of terrorism in a Moscow theater, 45 died of gunshot wounds, Moscow Prosecutor Mikhail Avdyukov told Interfax on Tuesday. raid], Muscovite Olga Romanova, whom the terrorists shot and killed while she tried to enter the besieged theater, and a man who has not yet been identified and whose possible collusion with the terrorists is being examined," the prosecutor said.
The relatives of the dead have already been given death certificates indicating gunshot wounds as the cause of death. At the same time, criminology experts have yet to identify whether these people were killed with weapons belonging to the terrorists or to special forces, Avdyukov said.
Avdyukov also did not rule out that the investigation might look into the composition of the gas used during the storming of the theater. "We have no reasons so far to say that the use of this special agent was the direct cause of the deaths of the hostages. The matter most likely involves a combination of factors, including external ones, which caused the deaths," he said.