Russia Hostage Death Toll Said to Top 200

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By MIKE ECKEL

BESLAN, Russia (AP) - Commandos stormed a school Friday in southern Russia and overcame separatist rebels holding hundreds of hostages as crying children, some naked and covered in blood, fled the building through explosions and gunfire. Health officials said more than 200 people died, the Interfax news agency reported.

Ninety-five victims were identified - many of them children whose shattered, bloodied bodies were placed on lines of stretchers - and Interfax quoted unnamed sources in the regional Health Ministry as saying more than 200 people were killed by fire from the militants or died from their wounds.

Russia Hostage Death Toll Said to Top 200

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1. God this seriously sucks, saw the pics of this somewhere else,

kills me see to kids in pain and scared.

Edited for grammar

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2. Just an incredible tragedy

How anyone can justify this type of action in the name of religion, god, country, or anything else is beyond my capacity to understand.

The fallout from this in Russia and Chechnya will last for a long, long time.

[jukes]

3. this is a real tragedy

all this death for nothing.

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4. CNN was quoting Russian TV reports that death toll may be over 500

The gymnasium had been packed with people and it is now completely burnt out and the roof collapsed.

"The attackers herded their captives into the gym where they planted two big bombs in the two basketball baskets and laid cables leading to other, smaller charges across the floor, said Ms Gadzhinova."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3625202.stm