Survivors and victims' relatives have gathered to remember 130 hostages who died at a Moscow theater seven years ago.Some 200 people laid flowers outside the theater on Monday and released 130 balloons into the wintry gray sky in memory of the victims.
More than 800 people were held hostage for nearly three days by militants from Chechnya, who rigged the theater with explosives.
Nearly all the hostages who died succumbed to a narcotic gas used to knock out the hostage-takers before security forces stormed the theater on Oct. 26, 2002.
Zoya Chernitsova, who lost her son in the theater attack, says she feels his loss more every year.
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