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.
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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.
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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.
The situation re. the school hstages seems to be getting worse and worse.
Armed men seize Russian school
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.