Bloody end to Russia school siege
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Russian troops storm the school where hundreds of people have been held hostage as heavy gunfire continues.
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BESLAN, Russia  - 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 fresh doubts  on Moscow's policy in the turbulent region.
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Russia began counting the cost on Saturday at the end of a siege of a school captured by Chechen gunmen which killed at least 200 people and cast fresh doubts on Moscow's policy in the turbulent region.
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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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Russian forces today stormed a school where heavily armed fighters held hundreds of people hostage, provoking fierce gunbattles.
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The killing of more than 320 children, parents and teachers during the bloody end to a 53-hour school siege left barely a family untouched in the small Russian town of Beslan.
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BESLAN, Russia - Armed militants with explosives strapped to their bodies stormed a Russian school in a region bordering Chechnya on Wednesday, corralling hundreds of hostages - many of them children - into a gymnasium and threatening to blow up the building if surrounding Russian troops attacked. At least two people were killed, including a school parent...
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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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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.
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BESLAN, Russia - More than 340 people, including 155 children, were killed in the violence that ended a hostage standoff with militants at a southern Russian school, a prosecutor said Saturday. President Vladimir Putin accused the attackers of trying to spark an ethnic conflict that would engulf Russia's troubled Caucasus Mountains region...
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BESLAN, Russia : Russia was plunged into mourning at the brutal and bloody end to a three-day school siege which left over 300 children and adults dead, and many of the 1,000 hostages lying injured in hospital.
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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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Up to 100 bodies were seen lying in a Russian school gymnasium after troops stormed the building to end a two-day siege, a British ITV News reporter said Friday.
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BESLAN, Russia -- Hundreds of children, their parents, and teachers died in the bloody culmination of a 52-hour siege that began when heavily armed Muslim guerrillas stormed their school Wednesday and ended in hours of battle with Russian troops Friday.
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ELEANOR HALL: The 40-day mourning period being observed in Russia for the hundreds of men, women and children killed in the school siege in the North Ossetian town of Beslan is coming to an end today.
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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