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Man takes five hostage in Russian coal region
Mar 13, 2009 at 17:43 | ReutersThe man, armed with guns and grenades, took control of the Ursa Bank in the city of Leninsk-Kuznetsky, about 3,000 km (1,900 miles) from Moscow, and demanded his acquaintance be freed from jail.
"Five bank workers are inside," RIA quoted a spokesman for the local administration as saying. The spokesman said local governor, Aman Tuleyev, would head negotiations with the man.
The Kemerovo region, Russia's biggest coal-producing region, has been badly hit by the economic crisis after major steel producers slashed their coking coal consumption.