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Science 8 November 2002:
Vol. 298. no. 5596, pp. 1150 - 1151
DOI: 10.1126/science.298.5596.1150
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TOXICOLOGY:
Questions Swirl Over Knockout Gas Used in Hostage Crisis

Martin Enserink and Richard Stone

CAMBRIDGE, U.K., AND WASHINGTON, D.C.--Scientists are still speculating about the exact nature of the gas that subdued the Chechen terrorists but also killed 118 hostages in a Moscow theater on 26 October. Experts are doubtful about the official Russian explanation, which is that the gas was a derivative of fentanyl, an opiate. Hopes for a clearer picture are now riding on toxicological analyses on Western hostages.

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