Hundreds Held Hostage in Russia School

[russian33]

MOSCOW - Attackers wearing suicide-bomb belts seized a school in a Russian region bordering Chechnya (news - web sites) on Wednesday, taking hostage about 400 people — half of them children — and threatening to blow up the building. At least two people were killed, one of them a parent who resisted an attacker.

The hostage-takers reportedly released 15 children several hours later, the ITAR-Tass news agency reported. No further details were immediately available.

President Vladimir Putin (news - web sites) interrupted his working holiday in the Black Sea resort of Sochi and returned to the capital. Upon arrival at the Moscow airport, he held an immediate meeting with the heads of Russia's Interior Ministry and Federal Security Service, the Interfax news agency said.


http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040901/ap_on_re_eu/russia_school_seizure&cid=518&ncid=716

[Ripley]

1. At least Putin interrupts his vacation to work...

Unlike Dumbo.

[acmavm]

2. Yeah, but let's hope he's not calling out the idiots who tried to 'rescue'

those poor people in that theater a couple years ago. That was not a well thought out plan.

[muriel_volestrangler]

3. dupe

of http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x792167

[Moderator]

4. Duplicate

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=792167