Russia School Seizure
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Wails of mourning echoed through the streets of this southern Russian town on Sunday, and the region&#39;s top police officer offered his resignation in the wake
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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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More than a dozen militants carrying guns and wrapped in suicide-bomb belts yesterday raided a southern Russian school in a region bordering Chechnya, seizing up to 400 hostages - half of them students welcoming the new school year.
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Video image of hostages sitting below explosives strung from basketball hoops in the gymnasium of a school in Beslan, Russia. Photograph: NTV/AP.
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BESLAN, Russia  - Children returned to schools in this grief-stricken southern Russian town Wednesday for the first time since heavily armed militants seized more than 1,200 hostages at a school two weeks ago in a raid that shocked Russia and the world.
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THE UNSPEAKABLE tragedy in Beslan, the town in Southern Russia where terrorists seized a school on the first day of class and where more than 300 people
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Heavily armed insurgents seized a school in southern Russia and threatened to kill scores of schoolchildren, parents and teachers.
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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.    Casualty reports varied widely...
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Russian troops stormed a school on Friday, blaming Chechen hostage-takers for a bloody battle in which more than 200 people -- dozens of them
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An armed gang is holding at least 200 hostages,  many of them children, at a  school in south Russia.
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Armed attackers have seized a school in town in southern Russia, and Russia&#39;s ITAR-TASS news agency says about 400 people, including 200 children, are being held.
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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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A heavily armed gang seized at least 120  hostages at a Russian school near Chechnya on Wednesday and  threatened to kill 50 children for every one of their group who  was killed, a senior local official said.
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Russian troops storm the school where hundreds of people have been held hostage as heavy gunfire continues.
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MOSCOW - Armed attackers, some wearing suicide-bomb belts, seized a school Wednesday in a Russian region bordering Chechnya and were holding hundreds of children and adults hostage, news reports said. The assault came a day after a suicide bomber killed 10 people in Moscow...
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Armed terrorists seized a school in Russia&#39;s North Ossetia region, bordering Chechnya, Wednesday, taking hundreds of hostages including some 200 children.
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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...