Report: Armed Men Seize School in Russia
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MOSCOW Sept. 1, 2004 - Armed men seized a school in the Russian region of North Ossetia Wednesday morning and were in a gun battle with police, news reports said.
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Unidentified gunmen raided a school in North Ossetia Wednesday morning just as students, parents and teachers were celebrating the start of the new school year.
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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.
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Sept. 1, 2004: About 30 gunmen seize a school in the southern town of Beslan, and at least 338 hostages die in explosions and gunfire that end the standoff two days later.
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BESLAN, Russia - Militants wearing suicide-bomb belts seized a southern Russian school in a region bordering Chechnya on Wednesday, taking hundreds of hostages - many of them children - and threatening to blow up the building if police storm it. As least two people have been reported killed, including a school parent...
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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. Ninety-five bodies have been identified, but one official said the death toll could far exceed 150...
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BESLAN, Russia - Heavily armed militants who seized a school three days ago are holding at least 1,000 students, teachers and parents hostage inside the building, far more than previously thought, a released hostage and a regional official said.    Russian officials had said that about 350 people were being held by raiders who seized the school in the North Ossetian city of Beslan on Wednesday...
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Key events in seizure of a school in the town of Beslan in southern Russia. Some times are approximate.
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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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The three-day hostage siege at a school in southern Russia ended in chaos and bloodshed Friday, after witnesses said Chechen militants set off bombs and Russian commandos stormed the building. Hostages fled in terror, many of them children who were half-naked and covered in blood. Officials estimated the death toll at more than 200.
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MOSCOW Sept. 16, 2004 - Some of the weapons used by militants in the deadly Russian school siege were pilfered from police posts in armed raids allegedly led by one of Chechnya&#39;s most notorious warlords, Russia&#39;s
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Some of the weapons used by militants in the deadly Russian school siege were pilfered from police posts in armed raids allegedly led by one of Chechnya's most notorious warlords, Russia's chief prosecutor said in an interview published Thursday.
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Video image of hostages sitting below explosives strung from basketball hoops in the gymnasium of a school in Beslan, Russia. Photograph: NTV/AP.
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MOSCOW Sept 9 - Ten of the raiders who seized a school and took some 1,200 people hostage have been identified - and six of them came from Chechnya, where separatist insurgents have been fighting Russian forces for five years, security officials said
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Some of the hostage-takers who took over a school in southern Russia, leading to the death of more than 150 children, may not have known what they were getting
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BESLAN, Russia - Armed militants with explosives strapped to their bodies stormed a Russian school in a region bordering Chechnya on Wednesday, corralling hundreds of hostages - many of them children - into a gymnasium and threatening to blow up the building if surrounding Russian troops attacked.    Casualty reports varied widely...
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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.