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School (photo by Agentura)
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After storming (photo by Agentura)
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Beslan siege
At approximately 08-00 local time on Wednesday,
September 1, 2004, a group of men and women armed with assault rifles and
grenade launchers seized school No.1 in the town of Beslan in North Ossetia.
After a brief shootout, the attackers forced the children
and teachers inside the school and announced that they were being held hostage.
1 September
- The
gunmen call for talks with the presidents of North Ossetia and Ingushetia
and renowned doctor Leonid Roshal.
- Hostage-takers,
numbering between 17 and 40, threaten to kill 50 children for every
militant killed.
- Nearly
50 children manage to escape. Gunmen set free 15 more.
- President
Putin breaks off his vacation and returns to Moscow.
- Representative of Chechen rebel
leader Aslan Maskhadov denies involvement by forces loyal to him.
- Russian authorities get in
contact with attackers. Gunmen refuse to pass food, water and medicines to
the hostages.
2 September
- A government source reveals the
exact number of hostages for the first time since the crisis, putting the
number at 354 (It was not true. All in Beslan know the number of hostages
is more than 1000 persons).
- Schoolchildren held hostage
report by phone that they are coping and that the conditions are
“tolerable”.
- Captors free several women and
young children, the news agencies reported. The number of released
hostages varies from six to 26.
3 September
When the
gunmen allowed the bodies to be carried out of the school and the emergency
officials started to recover them, the attackers blew up their explosives. It
was at 13.05. Storming started…
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