Russia: Accidental Blast Led to Siege End
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MOSCOW Sept. 8, 2004 - 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.
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The Russian government abruptly shifted gears Friday and concluded that at least one of the two planes that fell out of the sky almost simultaneously this week was blown up by terrorists.
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Sub-based Bulava palaver A test launch of a next-generation, submarine-launched Russian ICBM ended in failure yesterday when the missile crashed into the White Sea shortly after launch, news agency Novosti reports.â¦
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THE Russian school siege reached a catastrophic climax yesterday as terrorists carried out their threat to blow up the building, killing at least 200 people, many of them children, and injuring more than 700.
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At least eight people were killed and 43  were injured on Wednesday in an explosion on a bus in the  Russian city of Togliatti and authorities said they were  treating the suspected bombing as a terrorist act.
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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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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  - 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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Russia says it will launch an inquiry to unravel the sequence of events which brought a violent end to the school siege at Beslan in North Ossetia.
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MOSCOWâA terrorist attack brought down at least one of the two planes in this week&#39;s near-simultaneous crashes in Russia, authorities said yesterday after investigators sifting through the wreckage found traces of an explosive at one of the crash sites.
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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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One of two Russian airlines that crashed nearly simultaneously was brought down by a terrorist act, officials said Friday, after finding traces of explosives in the plane&#39;s wreckage.
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Russian officials hope to prevent reprisals as 40-day mourning period ends for victims of the school siege. By Fred Weir | Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor.
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MOSCOW - One of two Russian airliners that crashed nearly simultaneously was brought down by a terrorist act, officials said Friday, after finding traces of explosives in the plane's wreckage. An Islamic militant group claimed responsibility for the attack in a Web statement...
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MOSCOW  - Russian officials declared Friday that a terrorist act downed one of the two planes in this week's near simultaneous crashes after the wreckage revealed traces of a high explosive used in past attacks blamed on Chechen separatists.
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WHEN it came, the end of the siege at School No1 in the small north Ossetian town of Beslan was the worst possible outcome. It was protracted, chaotic and bloody and a catastrophe not just for the families
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MOSCOW -- Two days after the bloody end of a hostage crisis left more than 300 people dead, the identity of the attackers who seized a school in the ethnic patchwork of Russia&#39;s North Caucasus region remained uncertain yesterday.