Relatives of victims of the
Beslan massacre on Sunday said they were still waiting for answers, 15 years after the tragedy that left over 330 dead including 186 children.
MOSKOVA (CyHAN)- The insurgents who 10 years ago on this day, took more than 1,100 school children, their teachers and relatives hostage in a school in
Beslan, Russia turned down any negotiations, preferring violence and scare tactics, a special forces officer who was in command of an assault team during the 2004
Beslan hostage crisis told RIA Novosti.
Then suicide bombers blew up two airliners a week before seizing
Beslan school on September 1, 2004.
Beslan is the town in southern Russian where in 2004, an armed siege in a school resulted in the deaths of 300 people, 180 children among them.
Our correspondent said that the attack could have been a "message" from separatist fighters that "the authorities and the people of the North Caucasus remain as vulnerable as they were six years ago when the
Beslan siege took place, despite an increase in counter-insurgency operations".
About half of those who died at the school in
Beslan were children.
As the fifth anniversary of the
Beslan school massacre is commemorated, the Russian community was again in the thoughts of the people of Aberfan.
Summary: Relatives of those who died have been marking the fifth anniversary of Russia's worst militant attack, at
Beslan's School No.
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 from within, a victim support group says.
A WOMAN hurt during the 2004 school hostage-taking in the southern Russian town of
Beslan has died of her wounds, bringing the total death toll to 333, a
Beslan activist said yesterday.
Putin praised security personnel who had a part in the operation to take out Basayev, who is thought to have masterminded the
Beslan school siege in September 2004 in which over 350 people, most of them children, were killed and hundreds more injured.