Bloody end to Russia school siege
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Russian troops storm the school where hundreds of people have been held as heavy gunfire continues.
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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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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 ...
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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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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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It was an iconic image of hope in the death and chaos that ended the three-day Beslan school siege &#151; a girl's bloodied hand clutching a golden cross.
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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. Ninety-five bodies have been identified, but one official said the death toll could far exceed 150...
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BESLAN, Russia - At least seven people were killed and 310 others wounded Friday, reports said, after commandos stormed a school in southern Russia where hundreds had been held hostage for three days by Chechen rebels strapped with explosives.    Troops killed five of the hostage-takers but 13 others escaped, the ITAR-Tass news agency said...
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Russia was braced for a bloodbath last night after terrorists with Kalashnikov assault rifles and suicide bomb belts stormed a school and took up to 400 hostages, at least 130 of them children.
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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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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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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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More than 200 people died and 700 were wounded, many of them young children, as troops stormed a school here Friday in a harrowing operation to free 1,000 hostages from heavily-armed militants demanding independence for Chechnya.
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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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Armed terrorists stormed a school in southern Russia near the separatist region of Chechnya Wednesday morning, taking hostage more than a hundred students, teachers and parents after a shootout with local police, authorities said.
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BESLAN, Russia - Russian soldiers fled as shooting broke out in the spasm of violence that ended the school siege here, and unprepared special forces were forced to borrow bullets from armed locals who had rushed to the scene.    As Beslan buried more victims Friday, a week after the bloodbath at School No...
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At least seven people were killed and 310 others wounded Friday, reports said, after commandos stormed a school in southern Russia where hundreds had been held hostage for three days by Chechen rebels strapped with explosives.