Russia School Standoff Ends With 250 Dead
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BESLAN, Russia - The three-day hostage siege at a school in southern Russia ended in chaos and bloodshed Friday, after witnesses said Chechen militants set off bombs and Russian commandos stormed the building. Hostages fled in terror, many of them children who were half-naked and covered in blood...
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BESLAN, Russia : Russia was plunged into mourning at the brutal and bloody end to a three-day school siege which left over 300 children and adults dead, and many of the 1,000 hostages lying injured in hospital.
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MORE than 200 people - including children - are believed to have died after the school hostage crisis in Russia came to chaotic and bloody end today.
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The operation to end the school hostage crisis in Russia is over but more than 200 people have died after troops stormed the building.
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Russian authorities are trying to negotiate with the armed group holding at least 200 hostages, many of them children. The heavily armed militants stormed the school in Beslan on Wednesday and are demanding
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The three-day hostage siege at a school in southern Russia ended in chaos and bloodshed Friday, after witnesses said Chechen militants set off bombs and Russian commandos stormed the building.
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BESLAN, Russia - Heavily armed militants who seized a school in southern Russia are holding at least 1,000 children, teachers and parents hostage, a regional official and released woman said, contradicting far lower official figures from the standoff that entered a third day Friday.    Russian officials had said that about 350 people were being held by the militants, who seized the school in the North Ossetian city of Beslan on Wednesday...
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BESLAN, Russia - Camouflage-clad commandos carried crying babies away from a school where gunmen holding hundreds of hostages freed at least 26 women and children Thursday during a second day of high drama that kept crowds of distraught relatives on edge.    Two new accounts emerged, meanwhile, that the militants were holding at least 1,000 children, teachers and parents inside the school, far more than previously thought...
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BESLAN, Russia  - At least 322 people, almost half  of them children, died in the bloodbath that ended a school  siege by Chechen separatists in southern Russia, a senior  justice official said on Saturday.
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MOSCOW  - Two days after the bloody end of a hostage crisis that left more than 350 people dead, the identity of the attackers who seized a school in the ethnic patchwork of Russia's North Caucasus region remained uncertain Sunday.
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MOSCOW, Russia -- Russia was in shock Wednesday as an armed group took more than 200 people hostage at a school near Chechnya just hours after a suicide bomber killed 11 people and injured dozens outside a busy Moscow subway station.
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MOSCOW  - Tens of thousands of people answered a government call and rallied outside the Kremlin on Tuesday in a show of solidarity against terrorism, nearly a week after militants seized a school in southern Russia in a standoff that claimed more than 350 lives, many of them children.
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President Vladimir Putin ordered a crackdown in southern Russia after a school siege killed at least 250, and warned Chechen sympathisers on Saturday they would be seen as "accomplices of terrorism."
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BESLAN, Russia  - Hostages released from a provincial Russian school said there are at least 1,500 people being held there by armed militants, Russian newspapers reported Friday, and a local legislator announced a similar figure challenging far lower official numbers.
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A stand-off between Russian forces and two army deserters has ended after one of the soldiers shot himself and the other surrendered, Russia&#39;s Interfax news agency reported, quoting a police source.
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Sept. 1, 2004: About 30 gunmen seize a school in the southern town of Beslan, and at least 338 hostages die in explosions and gunfire that end the standoff two days later.
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MOSCOW -- Militants holding hundreds of hostages in a school in southern Russia freed 26 women and children yesterday as the Russian government intensified negotiations with the captors and relatives of those still inside kept an emotional vigil nearby.