Beslan tragedy commemorated
Published: 01 September, 2007, 11:15
On Saturday morning people gathered in the ruins of the former school number one to mark the sad anniversary. Three years ago the siege of school number one started in the southern republic of North Ossetia-Alania. Terrorists, demanding that Russia withdr
The hostages were forced into the school’s gymnasium and deprived of food and water for three days until chaos broke out and 334 hostages were killed, including 186 children, and over 700 were injured.
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