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The Beslan school siege (also referred to as the Beslan school hostage crisis or the Beslan massacre) [2][3][4] was an Islamic terrorist attack that started on 1 September 2004. It lasted three days, and involved the imprisonment of more than 1,100 people as hostages, (including 777 children) [5] ending with the deaths of 334 people, 186 of ...
1 day ago · In 2004, the suffering of Beslan was felt all over Russia and resonated all over the world. First and foremost, the tragedy was caused by the dozens of men and women who stormed the school, firing ...
Aug 13, 2024 · Beslan school attack, violent takeover of a school in Beslan, a city in the North Caucasus republic of North Ossetia, Russia, in September 2004. Perpetrated by militants linked to the separatist insurgency in the nearby republic of Chechnya, the attack resulted in the deaths of more than 330 people, the majority of them children.
3 days ago · European Court of Human Rights ruled in 2017 Russia used excessive force to break siege. BESLAN, Russia, Sept 1 (Reuters) - Mourners lit candles and placed icons on Sunday beneath photographs of ...
3 days ago · A memorial event at the in Beslan school gym to mark 20 years since the hostage crisis. Sergei Karpukhin / TASS. Relatives of the victims of the Beslan school siege gathered Sunday to pay tribute ...
1 day ago · Twenty years on, the fighting mothers of Beslan remain all the more alone and lost in their grief, doubting that they will ever know the truth about the hostage crisis. Around 30 Chechen men and ...
3 days ago · Support Us. Twenty years after the Beslan School Siege, many of its victims continue to seek accountability from Russia’s leaders, who appear determined to ignore their calls. Until 2004, few outside of North Ossetia knew of the existence of Beslan, a town of just 35,000 people a stone’s throw from the regional capital, Vladikavkaz.
3 days ago · On the morning of Sept. 1, 2004 — the first day of the new school year in Russia — armed terrorists took more than 1,100 civilians hostage at School No. 1 in Beslan, a town in Russia’s North ...
Sep 1, 2014 · On Sept. 1, 2004, the name of Beslan, a small town in Russia’s North Caucasus Republic of South Ossetia, became known all over the world. During an assembly celebrating the start of the new...
Russia on Sunday marked the 20th anniversary of the Beslan school massacre, when over 330 people -- more than half of them children -- died in a hostage siege in the country's deadliest attack in ...
