Russia Hostage Death Toll Said to Top 200
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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.
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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 - More than 340 people, including 155 children, were killed in the violence that ended a hostage standoff with militants at a southern Russian school, a prosecutor said Saturday. President Vladimir Putin accused the attackers of trying to spark an ethnic conflict that would engulf Russia's troubled Caucasus Mountains region...
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BESLAN, Russia  - Russian President Vladimir Putin  rejected any dialogue with Chechen separatists, blamed for at  least 335 deaths in the school hostage siege, as hundreds of  thousands joined rallies against terrorism.
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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.
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BESLAN, Russia -- The hostage standoff at a school near Chechnya ended tragically yesterday with more than 200 children and adults reported killed and hundreds injured in an afternoon of fighting.
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BESLAN, Russia - President Vladimir Putin promised on Saturday a tough response to what he called an "all-out war" by terrorists against Russia, as the body count from the school hostage-taking rose to more than 340 dead and some relatives still searched for their loved ones amid the confusion.    A grim-faced Putin addressed the nation on television after a pre-dawn visit to the scene of the hostage-taking in Beslan...
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More than 200 people died and 700 were wounded, many of them young children, as troops stormed a school here Friday in a harrowing operation to free 1,000 hostages from heavily-armed militants demanding independence for Chechnya.
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Russia marks the third anniversary of the Beslan school siege, in which hundreds of people died.
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BESLAN, Sept 5: Mothers with tears flowing down their faces and fathers trying to hide their emotions buried their children and relatives on Sunday as the death toll from Russia&#39;s worst ever hostage crisis climbed by the hour.
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MOSCOW, Russia -- Russia was in shock Wednesday as an armed group took more than 200 people hostage at a school near Chechnya just hours after a suicide bomber killed 11 people and injured dozens outside a busy Moscow subway station.
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BESLAN, Russia Russians stunned by last week&#39;s school hostage siege are observing a national day of mourning for the more than 350 people killed.
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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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AT LEAST five people are dead and more than 300 people, including children have been injured after commandos stormed a school in southern Russia where up to a thousand hostages were being held, news agencies have reported.
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Teachers from the southern Russian school that was the scene of a deadly siege by armed militants have counted 1,326 people who were held hostage &#151; a tally far higher than official figures to date, a Russian newspaper reported Saturday.
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Gunmen with explosives strapped around their waists took more than 200 people hostage at a school in southern Russia near war-torn Chechnya and threatened to blow up the building if the security forces moved in.
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Children returned to schools in this grief-stricken southern Russian town Wednesday, two weeks after armed militants seized more than 1,200 hostages at a school in a raid that shocked Russia and the world.