115 hostages died because of the gas; 2 only because of bullets.
Some say it's the BZ gas (soemthing like that).
I've been asking myself: why didn't they use flashes to neutralize the terrorists (like when hostages are taken inside a plane)? But of course, there were so many heavily armed terrorists all around the theatre and the soldiers might not have known where they were exactly.
If using gas was the only solution left, were hospitals prepared to receive the poisoned hostages? It looks like doctors didn't know what poisoned them, in the beginning (and thus were unable to provide immediate help to the victims). Couldn't the soldiers have used loudspeakers to urge the hostages to use handkerchiefs to protect themselves (those who did were in much better condition)?
What happened in Moscow must serve as a lesson to the world.

Raoul