Terror takes over Russian school
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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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The Russian school seige shows the terror threat to which the UN must adapt, says  Jack Straw.
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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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Russian forces today stormed a school where heavily armed fighters held hundreds of people hostage, provoking fierce gunbattles.
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BESLAN, Russia - 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...
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A terrorist siege at a Russian school ends in a ghastly battle that leaves hundreds dead
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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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The people of Russia have experienced the extremes to which terrorists are prepared to go to achieve their ends. Terrorists killed more than three-hundred people, mostly children, at a school they seized in Beslan.
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Russian special forces Friday stormed the school near Chechnya where hundreds of children and adults have been held hostage for 52 hours. The action followed an intense gun battle during which dozens of hostages escaped even as gunmen fired on them.
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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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ATTACKERS WEARING suicide-bomb belts seized a school in a Russian region bordering Chechnya on Wednesday and were holding hundreds of hostages, reportedly including 200 children.
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Russian special forces stormed a school Friday ending a three-day hostage crisis and freeing hundreds of children, parents and teachers held without
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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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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
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BESLAN, Russia - Heavily armed militants who seized a school in southern Russia are holding at least 1,000 children, teachers and parents hostage, a regional official and released woman said, contradicting far lower official figures from the standoff that entered a third day Friday.    Russian officials had said that about 350 people were being held by the militants, who seized the school in the North Ossetian city of Beslan on Wednesday...
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Key events in gunmen's seizure of a school in the town of Beslan in southern Russia:
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Armed men attacked a school in a  southern Russia region near Chechnya on Wednesday and seized  hostages among schoolchildren and parents, Interfax news agency  said.