Russian security officials say 10 of Beslan school raiders ...
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MOSCOW Sept 9 - Ten of the raiders who seized a school and took some 1,200 people hostage have been identified - and six of them came from Chechnya, where separatist insurgents have been fighting Russian forces for five years, security officials said
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MOSCOW Forensic analysis of the remains of 31 militants who seized the public school in Beslan last month has determined that all of them were dependent on drugs, a senior law enforcement official said in a statement reported by Russian news agencies
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Russia put a 10-million-dollar price tag on the heads of two Chechen rebel leaders accused of masterminding the hostage-taking which ended in a bloodbath at a Beslan school.
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Russia offers $10m for information leading to the arrest of two Chechen rebel leaders following the Beslan siege.
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Militants appear to have planned their seizure of a Russian school carefully, starting months earlier and sneaking weapons into the building in advance. Still, some of the raiders may not have known what they were getting into and were appalled to find they were holding children hostage.
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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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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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BESLAN, Russia - 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...
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Ten of the estimated 30 militants who seized a school in southern Russia have been identified and six were from Chechnya, security officials said Thursday, drawing a strong connection to the Chechen insurgents who have been fighting Russian forces for years.
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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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BBC News Online profiles the top Chechen rebels sought by Russia for 300m roubles ($10m) following the Beslan school siege in North Ossetia.
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An armed gang that stormed a school in southern Russia may be holding as many as 1,500 hostages, far above the official figure of 350, newspapers quoted freed hostages on Friday as saying.
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BESLAN: A senior Russian security official yesterday said that the assault on the school where hundreds of hostages were being held had not been planned.
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Some of the weapons used by militants in the deadly Russian school siege were pilfered from police posts in armed raids allegedly led by one of Chechnya's most notorious warlords, Russia's chief prosecutor said in an interview published Thursday.
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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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Key events in the seizure of a school in Beslan in southern Russia. All times are local; some are approximate.
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BESLAN, Russia  - Russia's top general threatened  Wednesday to attack "terrorist bases" anywhere in the world, as  security services put a $10 million bounty on two Chechen  rebels they blame for last week's school siege.