Russia School Standoff Ends With 200 Dead
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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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BESLAN, Russia - Children returned to schools in this grief-stricken southern Russian town Wednesday for the first time since heavily armed militants seized more than 1,200 hostages at a school two weeks ago in a raid that shocked Russia and the world.    Students and teachers began the school day with a minute of silence, and officials said the town's seven schools would have a shortened day of classes...
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MOSCOW -- Militants holding hundreds of hostages in a school in southern Russia freed 26 women and children yesterday as the Russian government intensified negotiations with the captors and relatives of those still inside kept an emotional vigil nearby.
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Russian officials today gave the new figure for casualties in the violent ending of the school standoff. There are fears it could go even higher.
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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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BESLAN, Russia - Commandos stormed a school Friday in southern Russia and battled separatist rebels holding 1,200 hostages, as crying children, some naked and covered in blood, fled through explosions and gunfire. An official said the death toll could be significantly higher than 150...
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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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Russia began counting the cost on Saturday at the end of siege of a school captured by Chechen gunmen which killed at least 200 people and cast
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A siege at a south Russian school goes into the night, with a group holding at least 200, many 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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A terrorist siege at a Russian school ends in a ghastly battle that leaves hundreds dead
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BELSAN, Russia - More than a dozen militants wearing suicide-bomb belts seized a southern 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 if police storm it. As many as eight people have been reported killed, one of them 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. Estimates of the number of dead were as high as 200.
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BESLAN, Russia - President Vladimir Putin ordered the borders of North Ossetia closed Saturday as security forces searched the southern region for militants who escaped the Russian storming of a school where they had held hundreds of people hostage, many who fled the building under fire. A news agency reported 322 bodies were pulled from the rubble...
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According to the Russian government, about 330 people, one-third of them school children, were found dead after Russian special forces (Spetsnaz) stormed a school gymnasium in the North Ossetian town of Beslan on September 3. How they died and whether all
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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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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.