11 June 2009, 18:00
Man who threatened to trigger a grenade detained in Vladikavkaz
The Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of North Ossetia reports that today a man who threatened to blow up a grenade was detained.
This young man was searched from June 10. In the centre of Vladikavkaz, near the Central Post Office, he threatened to blow up a grenade that he held in hand. Then, he took a fixed-route taxi minivan and forced the driver to go to a big clothing marketplace, where he got lost among the trading pavilions.
The whole marketplace known as "Alan" and a large supermarket located nearby were evacuated.
According to the source, suspect Alan Gazdarov was detained after he took a woman as a hostage in Rostovskaya Street under a threat of grenade and went with her along tram tracks aside the railway station.
"The information was received by the district militia station. A team of law enforcers arrived and grasped the culprit; the woman remained safe and sound," the "Gazeta.Ru" quotes the source as saying.
