GUM building cordoned off in Bishkek after finding a suspicious object

BISHKEK, 9 Aug The suspicious object was found in GUM in Bishkek, the building was cordoned off, visitors are being evacuated, Sputnik Kyrgyzstan reports. Earlier, the agency reported that in Bishkek, police cordoned off the TsUM building because of unconfirmed information about the taking of hostages and the mining of the building by unknown persons. Later, the head of the TsUM security service, Viktor Zhirkov, said that information about the bomb and the hostages at the TsUM in Bishkek had not been confirmed. «Now the GUM, which is located opposite the TsUM, has been cordoned off,» the correspondent of Sputnik Kyrgyzstan reports from the scene, «the report says. As the agency notes in Telegram, police say that a suspicious object was found in the building. According to the agency, evacuation is underway from the GUM building.