Report: Armed Men Seize School in Russia
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MOSCOW Sept. 1, 2004 - Armed men seized a school in the Russian region of North Ossetia Wednesday morning and were in a gun battle with police, news reports said.
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Armed men and women seize a secondary school in southern Russia, taking up to 200 pupils hostage.
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At the time of writing, Russian special forces have stormed the school where Chechen terrorists took hundreds of children hostage, and the situation is in chaos.
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Security officials have identified six of the militants who seized a school in southern Russia as being from Chechnya, drawing a strong connection to the Chechen insurgents who have been fighting Russian forces for years.
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MOSCOW Sept 9 - Ten of the raiders who seized a school and took some 1,200 people hostage have been identified - and six of them came from Chechnya, where separatist insurgents have been fighting Russian forces for five years, security officials said
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BESLAN, Russia  - Explosions resounded and  automatic fire broke out on Friday near the Russian school  where hundreds of children and adults were being held by an  armed group, a Reuters correspondent at the scene said.
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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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Attackers wrapped in suicide-bomb belts raided a school in a region bordering Chechnya, seizing up to 400 hostages â-ncluding scores of students welcoming the
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Terrorists freed 15 children from the more than 100 hostages being held at a school in Beslan, southern Russia, Itar-Tass reported, citing an unidentified person from the headquarters
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MOSCOW  - Attackers wearing suicide-bomb belts seized a school in a Russian region bordering Chechnya on Wednesday, taking hostage about 400 people - half of them children - and threatening to blow up the building. At least two people were killed, one of them a parent who resisted an attacker.
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Russian special forces stormed a school ending a three-day hostage crisis and freeing hundreds of children, parents and teachers held without food or water by rebels demanding independence for Chechnya.
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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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Russian forces killed 27 hostage takers  after storming a school held by Chechen separatists and  captured three alive, Interfax news agency quoted officials as  saying on Saturday.
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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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BELSAN, Russia - More than a dozen militants wearing suicide-bomb belts seized a southern Russian school in a region bordering Chechnya on Wednesday, taking hostage about 400 people - half of them children - and threatening to blow up the building if police storm it. As many as eight people have been reported killed, one of them a school parent...
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BESLAN, Russia  - Russian troops stormed a school  on Friday, blaming Chechen hostage-takers for a bloody battle  in which more than 200 people -- dozens of them children --  were killed and hundreds were wounded.
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BESLAN, Russia - Armed militants with explosives strapped to their bodies stormed a Russian school in a region bordering Chechnya on Wednesday, corralling hundreds of hostages - many of them children - 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...