More Than 200 Killed in Russian School Shootout
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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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The main commander of the guerrillas who seized a school in southern Russia last week shot one of his own men for balking at taking children hostage and later blew up two
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BESLAN, Russia  -- More than 340 people, including 155 children, were killed in the violence that ended a hostage standoff with militants at a southern Russian school, a prosecutor said Saturday. President Vladimir Putin accused the attackers of trying to spark an ethnic conflict that would engulf Russia's troubled Caucasus Mountains region.
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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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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 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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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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MOSCOW - Heavy gunfire broke out at a school where militants were holding hundreds of people hostage Friday, after three powerful explosions hit the area and about 30 hostages fled.    The Interfax news agency said Russian commandos had stormed the school...
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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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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 soldiers fled as shooting broke out in the violence that ended the school siege and unprepared special forces were forced to borrow bullets from armed locals ,it was claimed today.
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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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A siege at a south Russian school goes into the night, with a group holding at least 200, many of them children.
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A heavily armed gang has seized at least 120 hostages at a Russian school near Chechnya and threatened to kill 50 children for every one of their group who was killed, a senior local official says.
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MOSCOW - At least 100 people were killed and more than 600 injured after commandos stormed a school in southern Russia on Friday where armed militants held hostages for the past three days.
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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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MOSCOW - The militants who raided a school in southern Russia last week were led by a man dubbed the Colonel, who enforced obedience by killing three fellow attackers - two by detonating the explosives they had strapped to their bodies.    Two days later, the attackers were moving the explosives they rigged around the gym where hundreds of hostages were held, and a bomb went off accidentally...