Police are
evacuating several major shopping malls in Moscow after a series of
anonymous bomb threats via phone, local media outlets have reported,
citing sources.
The GUM
department store, a major tourist site located on Red Square, is
being evacuated due to a bomb threat, police sources told TASS and
Interfax news agencies. Police are waiting for sniffer dogs and bomb
disposal experts to arrive at the scene.
Over 3,000
people have been evacuated from various shopping malls across the
Russian capital, a security source told TASS.
Anonymous
phoned-in bomb threats were directed at nine Auchan shopping malls, a
source in the emergency services told RIA Novosti. Five of the stores
are being evacuated , it added.
Witnesses
told news agencies that the Gagarinsky mall, a major shopping hub
located in the south west, and the Kuntsevo Plaza mall in the west
are being evacuated as well. There have been no official statements
on the issue as of yet.
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