Death Toll Rises in Russia School Standoff
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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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BESLAN, Russia - President Vladimir Putin promised on Saturday a tough response to what he called an "all-out war" by terrorists against Russia, as the body count from the school hostage-taking rose to more than 340 dead and some relatives still searched for their loved ones amid the confusion.    A grim-faced Putin addressed the nation on television after a pre-dawn visit to the scene of the hostage-taking in Beslan...
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Teachers from the southern Russian school that was the scene of a deadly siege by armed militants have counted 1,326 people who were held hostage &#151; a tally far higher than official figures to date, a Russian newspaper reported Saturday.
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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 - 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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President Vladimir Putin has vowed an &quot;all-out war&quot; against terrorism as the death toll from the Russian school siege looks set to rise above 500.
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A terrorist siege at a Russian school ends in a ghastly battle that leaves hundreds dead
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BESLAN, Russia - Militants wearing suicide-bomb belts seized a southern Russian school in a region bordering Chechnya on Wednesday, taking hundreds of hostages - many of them children - and threatening to blow up the building if police storm it. As least two people have been reported killed, including a school parent...
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Russia on Monday began an official two-day mourning period for more than 300 children and adults killed Friday in the bloody end of a hostage crisis at a school in Beslan in southern Russia.
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Armed men attacked a school in a southern Russia region near Chechnya on Wednesday and seized hostages among schoolchildren and parents, Interfax news agency said.
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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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MORE than 200 people - including children - are believed to have died after the school hostage crisis in Russia came to chaotic and bloody end today.
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MOSCOW - Tens of thousands of people answered a government call and rallied outside the Kremlin on Tuesday in a show of solidarity against terrorism, nearly a week after militants seized a school in southern Russia in a standoff that claimed more than 350 lives, many of them children.    Mourners in the grief-stricken city of Beslan lowered caskets into the damp earth in a third day of burials from the siege, which officials have blamed on Chechens and other Islamic militants...
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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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Armed men attacked a school in a  southern Russia region near Chechnya on Wednesday and seized  hostages among schoolchildren and parents, Interfax news agency  said.
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According to the Russian government, about 330 people, one-third of them school children, were found dead after Russian special forces (Spetsnaz) stormed a school gymnasium in the North Ossetian town of Beslan on September 3. How they died and whether all
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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