Armed men seize Russian school

Bill Sikes · Post by **Bill Sikes** » Wed Sep 01, 2004 4:08 am

From the Daily Telegraph (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/)

>Armed men seize Russian school

>(Filed: 01/09/2004)

>Up to 400 hostages, including 200 schoolchildren, are being held by armed men >who have seized a school in the Russian region of North Ossetia.

>At least three people were killed and 11 injured when the school in the city of >Beslan was first attacked. Nearly 50 children are thought to have escaped from >the building.

>As many as 17 heavily armed men and women stormed the school and have >threatened to blow up the building if police try to take it by force.

>Vladimir Yakovlev, President Vladimir Putin's envoy for the southern region of >Russia that includes North Ossetia, said: "It is not immediately clear how many

>schoolchildren and parents have been taken.

>"There is a shoot-out in the area."

Sounds as though there will be a repeat performance of the theatre job.

capt_buzzard · Post by **capt_buzzard** » Wed Sep 01, 2004 4:14 am

That bomb yesterday in Moscow city centre killed 10 people and news coming in says at least 60 people including children were wounded. A female bomber is believed to have blew herself up in a car outside a shopping centre,close to a Moscow subway station.

Bill Sikes · Post by **Bill Sikes** » Thu Sep 02, 2004 3:38 am

capt_buzzard wrote: That bomb yesterday in Moscow city centre killed 10 people and news coming in says at least 60 people including children were wounded. A female bomber is believed to have blew herself up in a car outside a shopping centre,close to a Moscow subway station.

The situation re. the school hstages seems to be getting worse and worse.

Peg · Post by **Peg** » Thu Sep 02, 2004 5:37 am

I hate knowing there are children out there having to wonder if they will live or die. The horror, fear, and worry their parents must be going through is unimaginable.