Russia School Siege Town Prepares to Bury Dead
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BESLAN, Russia  - The sound of weeping mothers who  lost their children in the bloody end to Russia's school siege  drifted out of the houses of Beslan on Sunday as relatives  prepared to bury the first of 333 people killed.
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BESLAN, Russia  - Wails of mourning echoed through the streets of this southern Russian town on Sunday, and the region's top police officer reportedly resigned in the wake of the school hostage-taking that left more than 380 people dead - nearly half of them children.
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Services were held for 120 of the more than 300 killed when a school was seized in an attack by militants. BESLAN, RUSSIA -- Funeral processions filled the rainy streets of this southern Russian city yesterday
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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 people of Beslan marked the  end of a 40-day mourning period on Tuesday, turning the Russian  school where their children were killed into a shrine with  gifts and flowers, as many warned of reprisals.
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Russia is counting the dead and wounded after the biggest hostage-taking assault the country has faced left at least 150 people dead at a school, many of them children.
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Relatives wait desperately for news as the Russia school siege toll passes 320 and workers sift the rubble.
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BESLAN, Russia -- Mothers wailed over the coffins of their children yesterday and dozens of townsmen dug graves in a football field-size piece of scrubland next to the cemetery. Funeral processions snaked through the streets as grief-stricken Russians began to bury victims of the terror attack on a school that left more than 350 people dead.
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BESLAN, Russia -- Wailing and pounding their hands on dirt graves, hundreds of people dressed in black marked the end of the traditional 40-day mourning period for the children and adults killed after terrorists seized a school on the first day of classes.
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BESLAN, Russia -- Relatives wandered among rows and rows of plastic body bags at a morgue yesterday, searching for loved ones who had died at the end of a three-day siege by Chechen rebels the day before.
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BESLAN, Russia  - The killing of more than 320  children, parents and teachers during the bloody end to a  53-hour school siege left barely a family untouched in the  small Russian town of Beslan.
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ELEANOR HALL: The 40-day mourning period being observed in Russia for the hundreds of men, women and children killed in the school siege in the North Ossetian town of Beslan is coming to an end today.
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BESLAN, Russia  - Mourners prepared on Sunday for  the first funerals of 330 people killed in the bloody battle  that ended the siege of a southern Russian school on Friday --  but others did not know if loved ones had survived.
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BESLAN, Russia -- Funeral processions filled the rainy streets of this southern Russian city yesterday, carrying coffins large and small, as townspeople buried scores of victims of a carefully planned school standoff that prosecutors linked to a Chechen rebel leader.
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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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The sound of weeping mothers who lost their children in the bloody end to Russia's school siege drifted out of the houses of Beslan on Sunday as relatives prepared to bury the first of 333 people killed.
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BESLAN, Russia Sept. 6, 2004 - Trains passing a cemetery blew their horns in respect Monday as Russia mourned the hundreds of victims of what increasingly appeared to have been a well-planned terrorist attack on a southern school.