Beslan remembers hostage crisis

  • 16 years ago
In Beslan, North Ossetia, schools re-open four days later than in the rest of the country, to allow families to remember the hostage crisis that four years ago claimed 334 lives. On September 1, 2004, heavily armed Chechen rebels stormed School Number One and held more than a thousand people hostage for three days. On the third day, a battle with Russian security forces following the detonation of explosives by the hostage takers left scenes of devastation that will never be forgotten.

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