The Beslan school massacre began on September 1, 2004 when Chechen rebels seized School Number One in the southern Russian city and took more than 1,100 people hostage. It ended 52 hours later in ...

BESLAN, Russia -- The city of Beslan in Russia's North Caucasus region of North Ossetia is marking the 20th anniversary of one of the worst terror attacks in Russian ...

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, Oct. 13, 2004 -- -- In the Russian Orthodox religion, people believe that when a person dies, the soul lingers near the body for 40 days before it is finally released. Today marks the ...

Participants also laid flowers at the Tree of Sorrow and at the monument to officers of the Alfa and Vympel special forces killed during the assault VLADIKAVKAZ, September 4. /TASS/. Around 13,000 ...

BESLAN, Russia -- Thousands of anguished residents of the small town of Beslan on Saturday marked the anniversary of one of Russia's deadliest terrorist attacks with white doves rising into the air, ...

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In 2004, a school in Beslan, a small town in the Russian republic of North Ossetia, became the scene of a horrendous terrorist attack by Chechen militants in which over 1,100 people were taken hostage ...

Fears that the Beslan school massacre will lead to attacks against people from the Caucasus mounted yesterday after skinheads beat four people "of Caucasian appearance" on the underground railway ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin and the Kremlin have been criticised for their handling of the attack Russia on Sunday marked the 20th anniversary of the Beslan school massacre, when over 330 people ...

President Vladimir Putin (L) communicates with patients of the Children's Clinical Center named after Leonid Roshal during a visit to the Center in Krasnogorsk outside Moscow, on August 21, 2024. [AFP ...

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 ...