Stunned Russians Observe Day of Mourning
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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.
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Russia begins national mourning for more than 330 school siege victims, as scores of funerals are held.
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The most heart-rending scenes the world watched recently in aghast on television screen were the burial of hundreds of children beside their wailing parents, relatives and well-wishers in the North Ossetian region of the Russian Republic recently.
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Images from Russia of the aftermath of the school siege bloodbath in Beslan.
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MOSCOW  - Two years after a bloody hostage siege at a Moscow theatre, survivors and victims' relatives Tuesday commemorated the tragedy - a precursor to the string of terrorist attacks blamed on Chechen rebels that have sent Russia reeling in recent months.
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Russian state TV airs an interview with an alleged hostage-taker, as two days of national mourning begin.
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BESLAN, Russia  - Flags flew at half-mast across  Russia on Monday at the start of national mourning for 338  people killed when Chechen rebels seized a school, while  questions mounted over President Vladimir Putin's policies.
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BESLAN, Russia  - Russia on Monday mourned the  deaths of hundreds of children and adults in its worst hostage  drama as criticism mounted over the way President Vladimir  Putin and his security forces handled the crisis.
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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 offered his resignation in the wake of the school hostage-taking that left at least 350 people dead.    Families were beginning the first of what will be a long and wrenching series of funerals - with the death toll still unsure and liable to rise...
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BESLAN, Russia  - Grief-stricken mothers and  fathers trudged through mud and rain on Monday to bury children  slaughtered in a Russian school siege as criticism mounted over  the way the Kremlin handled the crisis.
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Ceremonies mark the end of mourning in the North Ossetian town of Beslan for victims of the school siege.
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BESLAN, Russia Sept. 5, 2004 - Wails of mourning echoed through the streets of this southern Russian town on Sunday, and the region&#39;s top police officer reportedly resigned in the wake of the school hostage
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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  - Residents of this grief-stricken southern city on Tuesday marked the end of the formal, 40-day mourning period for the hundreds of victims of a school massacre, lighting thin prayer candles and propping up small icons and photographs among the flowers piled in the shattered gymnasium at the centre of the tragedy.
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Russia yesterday observed a day of mourning for at least 89 people who died in a double air disaster that may have been a terrorist attack in the lead-up to elections in rebel Chechnya.
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The many atrocities they experienced during the Soviet era of the 20th century did not prepare Russians for last Friday&#39;s tragic loss of hundreds of schoolchildren and others during a hostage-taking.
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Shocked by the deaths of more than 300 people in the Beslan hostage crisis, Russia today began two days of official mourning as the North Ossetian town continued to bury the victims of the siege.