An armed man on Wednesday took four people hostage at a bank in downtown Moscow.

Local media report, said that police are in talks with the hostage-taker, who reportedly has an explosive device. The incident took place at a Citibank office on Bolshaya Nikitskaya Street in Moscow.

According to some media reports, the man first took seven people hostage but then let three women go, one after another. 

Source : QNA