Militants hold scores of students, teachers
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MOSCOW -- Militants wearing suicide-bomb belts seized a school in southern Russia and took scores of children, parents, and teachers hostage early yesterday, threatening to blow up the building if government troops tried to storm it.
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Security officials have identified six of the militants who seized a school in southern Russia as being from Chechnya, drawing a strong connection to the Chechen insurgents who have been fighting Russian forces for years.
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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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An armed gang that seized a school in the southern Russian province of North Ossetia on Wednesday were holding between 120 and 150 hostages, Interfax news agency quoted a local police spokesman as saying.
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Sept. 1, 2004: About 30 gunmen seize a school in the southern town of Beslan, and at least 338 hostages die in explosions and gunfire that end the standoff two days later.
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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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MOSCOW: A Russian television network Tuesday broadcast footage from the school raided by militants last week depicting hooded attackers in a gymnasium crowded with hostages and strung up with explosives attached to wires.
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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 - 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. The assault came a day after a suicide bomber killed 10 people in Moscow...
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Officials pushed to get food and water to children and adult hostages that may number more than 1,000 held in a school here for a third day by militants who are demanding independence for the Russian republic of Chechnya.
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About 200 chidlren hostages on Friday managed to escape the school when Russian special forces stormed the school seized by gunmen Wednesday morning and hostage-takers tried to flee the school.
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Islamist militants take school children and teachers hostage in the north west of Pakistan, officials say.
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MOSCOW - 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.    Two days later, the attackers were moving the explosives they rigged around the gym where hundreds of hostages were held, and a bomb went off accidentally...
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BESLAN, Russia Sept. 15, 2004 - Two weeks after heavily armed militants took more than 1,200 hostages in a school in southern Russia, students in this grief-stricken town returned to classes accompanied
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Hundreds of people, many of them children, spend another night in a school as hostages of an armed gang.
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BESLAN, Russia  - Hostages released from a provincial Russian school said there are at least 1,500 people being held there by armed militants, Russian newspapers reported Friday, and a local legislator announced a similar figure challenging far lower official numbers.
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Some 46 students and teachers of an Islamic school have been detained in connection with a failed suicide bombing attack in eastern Pakistan, police said Sunday.