Police storm apartment after former soldier reportedly takes woman hostage in Russian Far East

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Police storm apartment after former soldier reportedly takes woman hostage in Russian Far East

A man in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy, the capital of Russia’s Far Eastern Kamchatka region, took a woman hostage in an apartment and threatened to harm on Friday morning, according to local emergency services. The regional authorities’ public information center reported the situation at about 9:00 a.m. local time, saying that the man was refusing to negotiate and that the police were preparing to storm the apartment. Two hours after the initial re…