Russian pupils held in armed siege
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An armed gang is holding at least 200 hostages,  many of them children, at a  school in south Russia.
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Escapees describe fleeing a Russian schoolyard Wednesday morning as guerrillas armed with rifles and explosives took hundreds hostage.
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MOSCOW, Russia -- Russia was in shock Wednesday as an armed group took more than 200 people hostage at a school near Chechnya just hours after a suicide bomber killed 11 people and injured dozens outside a busy Moscow subway station.
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MOSCOW - Attackers wearing suicide-bomb belts seized a Russian school in a region bordering Chechnya on Wednesday, taking hostage about 400 people - half of them children - and threatening to blow up the building. At least two people were killed, one of them a parent who resisted an attacker...
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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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AT LEAST five people are dead and more than 300 people, including children have been injured after commandos stormed a school in southern Russia where up to a thousand hostages were being held, news agencies have reported.
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Guerrillas with explosives strapped to their bodies stormed a school in a region bordering Chechnya on Wednesday, held hostage more than 300 people -- many of them children
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An unknown Chechen rebel group called the Black Widows organised the siege of a school in the Russian city of Beslan in which hundreds of children, their parents and teachers were killed.
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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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BESLAN, Russia - Commandos stormed a school Friday in southern Russia and battled separatist rebels holding 1,200 hostages, as crying children, some naked and covered in blood, fled through explosions and gunfire. An official said the death toll could be significantly higher than 150...
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A siege at a south Russian school goes into the night, with a group holding at least 200, many of them children.
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Hundreds of people, including many children, are being held hostage in a school in Beslan by armed militants. What is your reaction?
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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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At the time of writing, Russian special forces have stormed the school where Chechen terrorists took hundreds of children hostage, and the situation is in chaos.
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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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Moscow schoolchildren are to wear army-style dog tags as Russia tightens security after the Beslan school siege.
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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.