MOSCOW, Dec. 28 -- In the month before the Beslan school siege in which 331 hostages were killed last year, Russian security services received intelligence that terrorists might try to seize a school ...

(CNN) — Here’s a look at the Beslan school siege. On September 1, 2004, armed Chechen rebels took approximately 1,200 children and adults hostage at a school in Beslan, North Ossetia, Russia, at ...

In an effort to aid victims of the besieged Russian school in Beslan, Georgetown’s Orthodox Christian Fellowship raised more than $1,500 from student, staff and visitor donations last week. The money ...

* Victims on small stipends, poor healthcare five years on * Relatives of dead say authorities ignore calls for justice By Kazbek Basayev BESLAN, Russia, Sept 1 (Reuters) - With jet-black hair pulled ...

More than 1,000 people were held hostage for some 50 hours during the siege - Copyright AFP YURI TUTOV More than 1,000 people were held hostage for some 50 hours ...

BESLAN, Russia, July 28 (Reuters) - Previously unseen film proves that the bloody end to the 2004 Beslan siege was caused by security forces firing on a school crammed with hostages, not by blasts ...

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In September 2004, on the first day of class, Chechen militants took more than 1,200 hostages in a school in Beslan, Russia. After nearly three days, explosions and gunfire ripped through the school, ...