Israel’s ambassador to Moscow says some passengers had to hide in the terminal during a weekend riot at an airport in Makhachkala in Daghestan in southern Russia before being flown by helicopter to safety. Ambassador Alexander Ben Zvi said more than 30 people on the flight that arrived from Tel Aviv were Israeli citizens, and none was hurt. When they got off the plane and through passport control, "they apparently ran into some kind of unrest," he said. "In the end, most of them ended up in a VIP room, and they hid there” until they could be flown by helicopter to a closed facility, he added.
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