Gunfire at Russian School; Hostages Flee
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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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Guerrillas with explosives strapped to their bodies stormed a school in a region bordering Chechnya on Wednesday, held hostage more than 300 people -- many of them children
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Escapees describe fleeing a Russian schoolyard Wednesday morning as guerrillas armed with rifles and explosives took hundreds hostage.
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Russian troops stormed a school in the country&#39;s south, after hostages started fleeing the building where armed terrorists had been holding as many as 1,500 people captive for two days in Beslan, North Ossetia.
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MOSCOW  - Two strong explosions roar out near the seized school in southern Russia, followed by a continuous rattle of gunfire. Heavily-armed soldiers have been seen racing toward the school.
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MOSCOW, Russia -- Russia was in shock Wednesday as an armed group took more than 200 people hostage at a school near Chechnya just hours after a suicide bomber killed 11 people and injured dozens outside a busy Moscow subway station.
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Heavily armed insurgents, some with explosives strapped to their bodies, seized a school in southern Russia today and herded scores of schoolchildren and others into its gymnasium.
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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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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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A heavily armed gang seized up to 400 hostages at a Russian school near Chechnya Wednesday and threatened to shoot dead 50 children for any one of their comrades killed, a senior local official said.
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Fifteen children have been allowed to leave a school at the centre of a hostage crisis in Russia, according to media reports. Armed men and women have occupied the school in the Russian region of North Ossetia.
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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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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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BESLAN, Russia - Camouflage-clad commandos carried crying babies away from a school where gunmen holding hundreds of hostages freed at least 26 women and children Thursday during a second day of high drama that kept crowds of distraught relatives on edge.    Two new accounts emerged, meanwhile, that the militants were holding at least 1,000 children, teachers and parents inside the school, far more than previously thought...
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Commandos stormed a school Friday in southern Russia and overcame separatist rebels holding hundreds of hostages as crying children, some naked and covered in blood, fled the building through explosions and gunfire.
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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. The region borders with warring Chechnya.
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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.