At a glance: Russian school siege
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BBC News Online looks at how the crisis surrounding the siege of a school in the Russian town of Beslan, where more than 300 people are being held hostage, is developing.
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BESLAN, Russia, Sept. 5 Â Shafts of light passed through the bullet holes in the pupils desks, which had been stacked at windows, makeshift barricades against attack. Grisly scenes awaited behind them.
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WASHINGTON - The Education Department is advising school leaders nationwide to watch for people spying on their buildings or buses to help detect any possibility of terrorism like the deadly school siege in Russia.    The warning follows an analysis by the FBI and the Homeland Security Department of the siege that killed nearly 340 people, many of them students, in the city of Beslan last month...
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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 Chechen 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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BESLAN: More than 200 people were killed and some 700 were injured on Friday as crack troops stormed a school in southern Russia, freeing children and adults held hostage for almost three days by militants demanding independence for Chechnya.
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BESLAN, Russia  - Hostages released from a provincial Russian school said there are at least 1,500 people being held there by armed militants, Russian newspapers reported Friday, and a local legislator announced a similar figure challenging far lower official numbers.
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BESLAN, Russia - Children returned to schools in this grief-stricken southern Russian town Wednesday for the first time since heavily armed militants seized more than 1,200 hostages at a school two weeks ago in a raid that shocked Russia and the world.    Students and teachers began the school day with a minute of silence, and officials said the town's seven schools would have a shortened day of classes...
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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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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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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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BESLAN, Russia  - Explosions resounded and  automatic fire broke out on Friday near the Russian school  where hundreds of children and adults were being held by an  armed group, a Reuters correspondent at the scene said.
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Russian television network NTV has shown footage from the school in Beslan raided by militants last week depicting hooded attackers in a gymnasium crowded with hostages and strung up with explosives attached to wires.
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BESLAN, Russia - Attackers wrapped in suicide-bomb belts raided a school in a region bordering Chechnya, seizing up to 400 hostages - including scores of students welcoming the new school year - and threatening to kill captives or blow up the building if it was stormed by encircling Russian troops.    Authorities established contact with the hostage-takers hours after the raid Wednesday, which officials said left at least two people dead in the latest assault in a country the defense minister said has been challenged by a declaration of terrorist war...
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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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A Russian television network showed footage from inside the school raided by militants last week, depicting hooded attackers in a gymnasium crowded with hostages and strung up with explosives attached to wires.
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THE UNSPEAKABLE tragedy in Beslan, the town in Southern Russia where terrorists seized a school on the first day of class and where more than 300 people
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Russiaâs NTV channel has broadcast the video footage of the Beslan school siege shot by hostage-takers inside the building. It shows what was happening in the school gym.