Russia Hostage Death Toll Said to Top 200
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Commandos stormed a school Friday in southern Russia and overcame separatist rebels holding hundreds of hostages as crying children, some naked and covered in blood, fled the building through explosions and gunfire.
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Children returned to schools in this grief-stricken southern Russian town Wednesday, two weeks after armed militants seized more than 1,200 hostages at a school in a raid that shocked Russia and the world.
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BESLAN, Russia - Wails of mourning echoed through the streets of this southern Russian town on Sunday, and the region's top police officer offered his resignation in the wake of the school hostage-taking that left at least 350 people dead.    Families were beginning the first of what will be a long and wrenching series of funerals - with the death toll still unsure and liable to rise...
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BESLAN, Russia Sept. 15, 2004 - Two weeks after heavily armed militants took more than 1,200 hostages in a school in southern Russia, students in this grief-stricken town returned to classes accompanied
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At least seven people were killed and 310 others wounded Friday, reports said, after commandos stormed a school in southern Russia where hundreds had been held hostage for three days by Chechen rebels strapped with explosives.
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BESLAN, Russia - Commandos stormed a school Friday in southern Russia and battled separatist rebels holding hundreds of hostages, as crying children, some naked and covered in blood, fled through explosions and gunfire. Ninety-five bodies have been identified, but one official said the death toll could far exceed 150...
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BESLAN, Russia  - An armed gang that stormed a  school in southern Russia may be holding as many as 1,500  hostages, far above the official figure of 350, newspapers  quoted freed hostages on Friday as saying.
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The death toll in the Russian schoolhouse siege soared to more than 340 yesterday, and the horrifying human cost is likely to keep climbing.
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Gunmen with explosives strapped around their waists took more than 200 people hostage at a school in southern Russia near war-torn Chechnya and threatened to blow up the building if the security forces moved in.
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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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Tragic, despicable, inhumane, cowardly, barbaric, evil, and astonishing -- the deaths of a hundred or more people including children in a siege in Russia sparked strong words for the hostage-takers from world leaders, including Canadian Prime Minister, Paul Martin.
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Grief-stricken families prepared to bury their loved ones Sunday with President Vladimir Putin vowing to toughen security after a bloody hostage drama left at least 330 people dead, about half of them children.
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BESLAN, Russia  - Commandos stormed a school Friday in southern Russia and battled separatist rebels holding hundreds of hostages, as crying children, some naked and covered in blood, fled through explosions and gunfire. Estimates of the number of dead were as high as 200.
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Around 300 people, including many children, were facing a harrowing night in captivity Wednesday after they were taken hostage by extremists wearing belts laden with explosives at a southern Russian school near war-torn Chechnya.
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Services were held for 120 of the more than 300 killed when a school was seized in an attack by militants. BESLAN, RUSSIA -- Funeral processions filled the rainy streets of this southern Russian city yesterday
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BESLAN, Russia - Commandos stormed a school Friday in southern Russia and battled separatist rebels holding hundreds of hostages, as crying children, some naked and covered in blood, fled through explosions and gunfire. Estimates of the number of dead were as high as 200...
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THE Russian school siege reached a catastrophic climax yesterday as terrorists carried out their threat to blow up the building, killing at least 200 people, many of them children, and injuring more than 700.