Soldiers Fight Rebels to End Russian School Siege
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BESLAN, Russia  - Russian soldiers fought Chechen  separatists to end a two-day school siege Friday as naked and  screaming children ran for safety amid explosions and  machinegun fire.
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Russia began counting the cost on Saturday at the end of siege of a school captured by Chechen gunmen which killed at least 200 people and cast
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Holding up the corpse of a man just shot dead in front of hundreds of hostages at a Russian school, the rebel &#151; his pockets stuffed with ammunition and grenades &#151; warned: "If a child utters even a sound, we'll kill another one."
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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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Rebels urge Russia to peace talks before Feb. 22 cease-fire deadline.
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BESLAN, Russia - Attackers wrapped in suicide-bomb belts raided a school in a region bordering Chechnya, seizing up to 400 hostages - including scores of students welcoming the new school year - and threatening to kill captives or blow up the building if it was stormed by encircling Russian troops.    Authorities established contact with the hostage-takers hours after the raid Wednesday, which officials said left at least two people dead in the latest assault in a country the defense minister said has been challenged by a declaration of terrorist war...
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The hostage crisis at a school in southern Russian has ended, after a daylong battle between militants and authorities that left at least 100 people dead, many of them children, and hundreds more wounded.
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BESLAN, Russia - Commandos stormed a school in southern Russia where hundreds of hostages had been held for three days, and dozens of hostages fled the building, some bloodied and screaming.    Exchanges of gunfire rang out and a large plume of smoke rose over the school as troops clashed with the militants...
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BESLAN, Russia - Commandos stormed a school Friday in southern Russia and battled separatist rebels holding 1,200 hostages, as crying children, some naked and covered in blood, fled through explosions and gunfire. An official said the death toll could be significantly higher than 150...
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The guerrillas who took over a school in southern Russia argued heatedly over whether to abandon the siege in the moments leading up to the firestorm of explosions and shooting that killed hundreds, Russian officials said Monday.
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BESLAN, Russia - 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 rebels strapped with explosives.    Troops killed five of the hostage-takers but 13 others escaped, the ITAR-Tass news agency said...
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Rebel soldiers confronting army loyalists near this deserted Congolese farming town declared victory on Friday after clashes that stirred fears of fresh violence in turbulent central Africa.
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Armed terrorists stormed a school in southern Russia near the separatist region of Chechnya Wednesday morning, taking hostage more than a hundred students, teachers and parents after a shootout with local police, authorities said.
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Russian forces swept through forested mountains in eastern Chechnya Wednesday in an effort to capture rebel leader Aslan Maskhadov, once the president of the breakaway republic until driven from power.
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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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Armed militants with explosives strapped to their bodies stormed a Russian school in a region bordering Chechnya on Wednesday, corralling hundreds of hostages &#151; many of them children &#151; into a gymnasium and threatening to blow up the building if surrounding Russian troops attacked. At least two people were killed, including a school parent.
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Escapees describe fleeing a Russian schoolyard Wednesday morning as guerrillas armed with rifles and explosives took hundreds hostage.