150 die as school siege ends
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Naked children ran screaming in the confusion and carnage while some of their captors tried to escape with Russian soldiers in pursuit.
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US troops and relief workers airdropped more food to the millions of people left homeless and hungry from Asia's tsunami disaster, as the death toll from the tragedy crept towards 150,000.
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North Ossetians end their  official mourning period following the deadly school siege in Beslan.
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The UN believes more than 150,000  died in Asia's tsunami waves after an earthquake almost a week ago.
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Dutch special forces and negotiators ended a 14-hour siege of a house in The Hague, where three anti- terrorist police had been injured by a grenade during a predawn raid, with the arrest of two suspects.
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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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Ethnic clashes between majority Han Chinese and Hui Muslims left almost 150 people dead and forced the authorities to declare martial law in a section of Henan Province in
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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 - 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 Russian school siege reached a catastrophic climax yesterday as terrorists carried out their threat to blow up the building, killing at least 200 people, many of them children, and injuring more than 700.
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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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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Sept. 13 -- More than 60 people died in violence in Pakistan on Thursday, including at least 15 soldiers who were killed by an explosion in a heavily secured dining hall for army commandos.
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About 200 chidlren hostages on Friday managed to escape the school when Russian special forces stormed the school seized by gunmen Wednesday morning and hostage-takers tried to flee the school.
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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.
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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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Following is a selection of comments on the school siege in North Ossetia, where Russian soldiers have battled Chechen separatists to end the two-day standoff.
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&quot;Our latest data shows 16 dead with most of them killed after their houses collapsed on them. This. He said the quake damaged more than 600 houses, six schools, several churches and mosques.