Hundreds held hostage in Russian school
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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.
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Commandos stormed a school Friday in southern Russia and overcame separatist rebels holding hundreds of hostages as crying children, some naked and covered in blood, fled the building through explosions and gunfire.
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Terrorists freed 15 children from the more than 100 hostages being held at a school in Beslan, southern Russia, Itar-Tass reported, citing an unidentified person from the headquarters
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Around 300 people, including many children, were facing a harrowing night in captivity Wednesday after they were taken hostage by extremists wearing belts laden with explosives at a southern Russian school near war-torn Chechnya.
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Gunmen held hundreds of children and adults captive in a school gym into the night in turbulent southern Russia Thursday, but the Kremlin remained silent about an attack which amounted to a huge humiliation.
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Fifteen children have been allowed to leave a school at the centre of a hostage crisis in Russia, according to media reports. Armed men and women have occupied the school in the Russian region of North Ossetia.
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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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BESLAN, Russia - At least seven people were killed and 310 others wounded Friday, reports said, after commandos stormed a school in southern Russia where hundreds had been held hostage for three days by rebels strapped with explosives.    Troops killed five of the hostage-takers but 13 others escaped, the ITAR-Tass news agency said...
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MOSCOW, Russia (Agencies) -- Seven people were killed as armed attackers stormed a school in southern Russia and took at least 100 people hostage on Wednesday, Russian media reported.
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BESLAN, Russia  - Gunmen held hundreds of children  and adults captive in a school gym into the night in turbulent  southern Russia Thursday, but the Kremlin remained silent about  an attack which amounted to a huge humiliation.
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The hostage crisis at a school in southern Russian has ended, after a daylong battle between militants and authorities that left at least 100 people dead, many of them children, and hundreds more wounded.
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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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MOSCOW - Heavy gunfire broke out at a school where militants were holding hundreds of people hostage Friday, after three powerful explosions hit the area and about 30 hostages fled.    The Interfax news agency said Russian commandos had stormed the school...
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BESLAN, Russia - Commandos stormed a school in southern Russia where hundreds of hostages had been held for three days, and dozens of hostages fled the building, some bloodied and screaming.    Exchanges of gunfire rang out and a large plume of smoke rose over the school as troops clashed with the militants...
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Armed militants with explosives strapped to their bodies stormed a Russian school in a region bordering Chechnya on Wednesday, corralling hundreds of hostages &#151; many of them children &#151; 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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Gunmen with explosives strapped around their waists took more than 200 people hostage at a school in southern Russia near war-torn Chechnya and threatened to blow up the building if the security forces moved in.
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Armed militants on Wednesday stormed a Russian school in a region bordering Chechnya, corralling hundreds of hostages -- many of them children -- and threatening to blow up