Toll in Russian carnage touches 322

[seemslikeadream]

Vinay Shukla in Moscow | September 04, 2004 19:53 IST


Russian emergency workers have recovered 322 bodies from a school in Beslan in North Ossetia that witnessed a hostage crisis involving more than 1,000 people for nearly three days.

At least 155 of those killed were children.

The air in Beslan smelled of smoke and gunpowder as the workers sifted through the landmine-laden school gymnasium searching for survivors and dead bodies.


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"Investigating operation are continuing, and the death toll will most likely go up as the de-mining operation is still in progress," Deputy Prosecutor Sergei Fridinsky said.

Russian troops were forced to storm the building on Friday after the terrorists started firing on the panicked hostages, who were running after two explosions in the gym, Fridinsky told the state-run Rossia channel.

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[dolo amber]

1. So unbelievably sad

and unnecessary...:cry:

[mia]

2. Seaching for loved ones

People search for relatives among the bodies of dead hostages at a makeshift morgue in the town of Vladikavkaz, September 4, 2004. At least 322 people, including 155 children, died during the bloody end to a hostage-taking at a school in the southern Russian town of Beslan, near Chechnya (news - web sites), a senior prosecutor said on Saturday. REUTERS/Sergei

[Swamp Rat]

3. And Putin vows to make the body count higher.

[seemslikeadream]

4. and blame it on Arab mercenary terrorists funded by al-Qaeda

n/t

[sattahipdeep]

5. Any death is a wrong death

"It offends me and my sensitivity as a human being to find my brother's death
used to further a specific agenda that is not about Sept. 11," said Peterson,
whose brother worked for Cantor Fitzgerald and was killed on Sept. 11. "As
someone who loved somebody who was killed, my loyalty is specifically with
those people who are in danger of being killed. Any death is a wrong death."

Dawn Peterson, a representative from 9/11 Families for Peace

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One Scary looking guy

[UpInArms]

6. unbelievably sad for all of those families

Rows of body bags containing dead hostages lie for identification at a morgue in the town of Vladikavkaz, September 4, 2004. At least 322 people, including 155 children, died during the bloody end to a hostage-taking at a school in the southern Russian town of Beslan, near Chechnya (news - web sites), a senior prosecutor said on Saturday. REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin



A man carries an injured child who escaped from a seized school in Beslan, North Ossetia, Friday, Sept. 3, 2004. Commandos stormed a school Friday in southern Russia where hundreds of hostages had been held for three days, sending hostage-takers and their captives fleeing in a scene of chaos amid explosions and gunfire. More than 100 children were wounded in the assault, some running from the building naked and covered in blood. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)