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 approximately ...

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, ...

Mourners light candles and place icons beneath photographs of victims Survivors accused authorities of bungling the siege and covering up what happened European Court of Human Rights ruled in 2017 ...

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 ...

A new report on the Beslan school seizure contradicts an earlier account. More than 300 people were killed two years ago when Chechen militants seized the school. Russian officials have said that the ...

BESLAN, RUSSIA—Nearly a year after the deadly siege at School No. 1 in this North Ossetian town that killed more than 300 people—most of them children—a trial is under way of the sole hostage taker ...

* 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 ...

Russia says it will comply with a ruling requiring it to pay €2.9m (£2.6m; $3.5m) in damages over the 2004 Beslan school siege. About 330 people, including 186 children, died after Chechen rebels took ...

Two years ago, Russian Special Forces stormed a school in Beslan where Chechen separatists were holding about 1,200 people hostage. More than 300 people were killed -- nearly half of them children.