Russia school attackers threaten to kill 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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BESLAN, Russia  - President Vladimir Putin vowed  Thursday to do all he could to save hundreds of children,  parents and teachers held under threat of death by gunmen for a  second day at a Russian school near rebel Chechnya.
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A terrorist siege at a Russian school ends in a ghastly battle that leaves hundreds dead
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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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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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AT LEAST five people are dead and more than 300 people, including children have been injured after commandos stormed a school in southern Russia where up to a thousand hostages were being held, news agencies have reported.
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A London-based Chechen rebel representative said Wednesday that Russia's threats to attack terrorists around the world amount to a warning to European countries that Russian forces could carry out assassinations on their soil.
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Russian officials today gave the new figure for casualties in the violent ending of the school standoff. There are fears it could go even higher.
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MOSCOW Sept. 8, 2004 - 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.
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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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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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Militants appear to have planned their seizure of a Russian school carefully, starting months earlier and sneaking weapons into the building in advance. Still, some of the raiders may not have known what they were getting into and were appalled to find they were holding children hostage.
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ATTACKERS WEARING suicide-bomb belts seized a school in a Russian region bordering Chechnya on Wednesday and were holding hundreds of hostages, reportedly including 200 children.
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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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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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Holding up the corpse of a man just shot dead in front of hundreds of hostages at a Russian school, the rebel &#151; his pockets stuffed with ammunition and grenades &#151; warned: "If a child utters even a sound, we'll kill another one."
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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.