MOSCOW, February 18. /TASS/. More than 10,000 people have been evacuated from several stores in Moscow on Thursday because of the bomb threat, a source in the law enforcement agencies has told TASS.

According to him, people are evacuated from the GUM and TsUM department stores located in central Moscow, the Gagarinsky and Kuntsevo Plaza shopping malls, and all nine Auchan hypermarkets. In some stores the evacuation has been completed, and in some others it continues.

TASS has no official commentary from the law enforcement bodies.