Bloody Shootout Ends Russian School Siege
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BESLAN, Russia  - Russian troops stormed a school  Friday in a chaotic battle to free hundreds of parents,  teachers and children who had been held hostage for two days by  Chechen separatists.
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Russian forces say they have killed six militants during clashes in the troubled southern republic of Dagestan.
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Russian forces killed 27 hostage takers  after storming a school held by Chechen separatists and  captured three alive, Interfax news agency quoted officials as  saying on Saturday.
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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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Relatives return to the scene of Russia's bloody three-day school siege, as the number killed reaches 330.
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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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A terrorist siege at a Russian school ends in a ghastly battle that leaves hundreds dead
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Russian troops storm the school where hundreds of people have been held as heavy gunfire continues.
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Russian soldiers fled as shooting broke out in the violence that ended the school siege and unprepared special forces were forced to borrow bullets from armed locals ,it was claimed today.
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An armed gang holding at least 120  hostages in a school in the southern Russian region of North  Ossetia have freed 15 children, Itar-Tass news agency quoted  officials at the scene as saying Wednesday.
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A battle erupts in North Ossetia as Russian troops storm a school where hundreds of children had been taken hostage.
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Armed terrorists seized a school in Russia&#39;s North Ossetia region, bordering Chechnya, Wednesday, taking hundreds of hostages including some 200 children.
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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.
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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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The bloody end to the hostage crisis in Russia leaves unfathomable human suffering. More than three hundred children, parents and teachers died in the gruesome 52-hour siege that began
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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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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.