Over 10,000 people have been evacuated from various shopping malls across the Russian capital, a security source told TASS.
Anonymous phoned-in bomb threats were directed at nine Auchan shopping malls, a source in the emergency services told TASS. All of the stores are being evacuated, it added.
Social media users also posted photos of the evacuation of the Mega Belaya Dacha and Mega Khimki shopping hubs.
Witnesses told news agencies that the Gagarinsky mall, a major shopping hub located in the south west, and the Kuntsevo Plaza mall in the west are being evacuated as well.
There have been no official statements on the issue as of yet.
Special services and police are also verifying reports of a bomb threat at the building of the Presidential Administration of Russia located on Ilyinka street in downtown Moscow, a police source told TASS.
According to social media users, the Europark mall in the western Kuntsevo district is also under evacuation.
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