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Russian forces storm school taken by gunmen
(AP)
Updated: 2004-09-03 18:53
Russian security forces hide behind the wall
during a military operation around the school seized by heavily armed
masked men and women in the town of Beslan in the province of North
Ossetia near Chechnya , September 3, 2004. Russian soldiers battled
Chechen separatists on Friday to end a two-day-old school siege as naked
children ran out screaming amid explosions and machinegun fire.
[Reuters]
Women and children who escaped from a school
in southern Russia where militants were holding hundreds of people captive
in Beslan, North Ossetia, Friday, Sept. 3, 2004. A group of about 30 women
and children broke out of a school in southern Russia where militants were
holding hundreds of people captive Friday, a news agency reported, after
two loud explosions were heard and Russian commandos opened fire near the
building. [AP]
Russian Interior Ministry officer helps a
boy flee a school seized by heavily armed masked men and women in the
town of Beslan in the province of North Ossetia near Chechnya , September
3, 2004. [Reuters]
A boy is carried by his father after he was
released from the school seized by heavily armed masked men and women in
the town of Beslan in the province of North Ossetia near Chechnya,
September 3, 2004. Russian soldiers battled Chechen separatists on Friday
to end a two-day-old school siege as naked children ran out screaming amid
explosions and machinegun fire. [Reuters]
A boy cries as he sits in a car with his
relatives after he was released from the school seized by heavily armed
masked men and women in the town of Beslan in the province of North
Ossetia near Chechnya, September 3, 2004. [Reuters]
A video grab image shows security forces
surrounding the school seized by heavily armed masked men and women in the
town of Beslan in the province of North Ossetia near Chechnya, September
3, 2004. [Reuters] |
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