“After the call about the bomb being planted, evacuation from the hotel is underway. Some 900 people have been taken out so far,” the source said, according to RIA Novosti.
The source said that two lower floors and the concert hall have already been checked. Examination of the whole building will take up to three hours.
Another security source of the city news agency "Moskva" confirmed information.
A show by a Russian comedy group "Uralskiye pelmeni" held in the hotel concert hall was reportedly interrupted.
The "Cosmos" hotel complex located in north-central Moscow was built by French specialists in 1979 to serve the XXII Moscow 1980 Summer Olympics. It is the largest hotel in Russia. In 2005, a monument to the French President Charles de Gaulle was opened in the hotel square.
It was also a setting for the Night Watch films.
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