MOSCOW. Oct 29 (Interfax-AVN) - Law enforcement agencies in Moscow have detained a few more people on suspicion of having ties with the terrorists who took several hundred people hostage in a Moscow theater.
Moscow Prosecutor Mikhail Avdyukov told Interfax on Tuesday that these people were detained during a large-scale operation to establish possible accomplices in the terrorist attack. Traces of explosives were discovered on some of the detained, the prosecutor said.
Avdyukov noted that two people were detained under a criminal case opened on the hostage-taking in Moscow.
The prosecutor again denied some media reports that a police officer was detained who allegedly had ties with Movsar Barayev's terrorists. "We have not detained any police officer. If there was any detention, it was illegal," Avdyukov said.