More Than 200 Killed in Russian School Shootout
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Russian troops stormed a school on Friday, blaming Chechen hostage-takers for a bloody battle in which more than 200 people -- dozens of them
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Russia was braced for a bloodbath last night after terrorists with Kalashnikov assault rifles and suicide bomb belts stormed a school and took up to 400 hostages, at least 130 of them children.
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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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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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Armed militants on Wednesday stormed a Russian school in a region bordering Chechnya, corralling hundreds of hostages -- many of them children -- and threatening to blow up
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BESLAN, Russia  - Russian troops stormed a school  Friday in a chaotic battle to free hundreds of parents,  teachers and children who had been held hostage for two days by  Chechen separatists.
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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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Russia on Monday began an official two-day mourning period for more than 300 children and adults killed Friday in the bloody end of a hostage crisis at a school in Beslan in southern Russia.
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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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MOSCOW - 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. The assault came a day after a suicide bomber killed 10 people in Moscow...
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MOSCOW: At least three people were killed when gunmen took up to 240 people hostage in a school in North Ossetia, close to Chechnya, ITAR-TASS quoted local authorities as saying.
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Russian troops storm the school where hundreds of people have been held hostage as heavy gunfire continues.
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The main commander of the guerrillas who seized a school in southern Russia last week shot one of his own men for balking at taking children hostage and later blew up two
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A heavily armed gang seized at least 120  hostages at a Russian school near Chechnya on Wednesday and  threatened to kill 50 children for every one of their group who  was killed, a senior local official said.
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A terrorist siege at a Russian school ends in a ghastly battle that leaves hundreds dead
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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 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.