Russian conscript twins kill police, take hostages
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Twin Russian brothers killed two policemen and took several hostages on Thursday after running away from their army unit, the Defence Ministry said.
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Inmates in a Moscow pre-trial detention  center on Monday seized as many as 15 hostages, including a  chief warden and his deputy, and Interfax news agency reported  a blast and automatic gunfire at the prison.
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Russian police on Sunday broke up a   human rights campaigners' rally calling on President Vladimir   Putin to tell the whole truth about the deaths of more than 300   hostages in the Beslan school siege two years ago.
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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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Gunmen attacked a police station in the  western Iraqi town of Haditha on Sunday, took 21 policemen  hostage and later shot them dead, police 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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BESLAN, Russia Sept. 5, 2004 - Wails of mourning echoed through the streets of this southern Russian town on Sunday, and the region&#39;s top police officer reportedly resigned in the wake of the school hostage
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Security forces raided a Moscow jail and freed the warden and 14 employees several hours after they were seized Monday by inmates wearing guards' uniforms and armed with metal rods, Russian authorities said.
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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. Hostages fled in terror, many of them children who were half-naked and covered in blood. Officials estimated the death toll at more than 200.
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Three Russian policemen were charged Wednesday with criminal negligence leading to the deaths of more than 350 hostages seized at a school in Beslan.
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Three Russian policemen were charged  Wednesday with criminal negligence leading to the deaths of  more than 350 hostages seized at a school in Beslan.
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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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MOSCOW : Attacks by Chechen separatists late Saturday in Grozny, the capital of the Russian breakaway republic, left people several dead, including pro-Russian policemen, Russian news agencies reported, quoting pro-Russian officials.
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ROSTOV-ON-DON, RUSSIA - Three Russian police officers have been charged with criminal negligence in connection with the Beslan school hostage-taking that left 360 people dead, almost half of them children.
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Chicago Tribune - Moscow police are holding two Chechen men suspected in the slaying of American journalist Paul Klebnikov, whose murder shook the journalism community here and stirred memories of the kind of gangland mayhem that characterized Russia's turbulent 1990s.
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FALLUJA - Gunmen captured 21 Iraqi policemen and shot them in cold blood today, a day after attacks on security forces that killed 34 people, police said.
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Two Russian officers were convicted by a military court Thursday of killing three construction workers at checkpoint in Chechnya.