Armed men seize Russian school
Posted: Wed Sep 01, 2004 4:08 am
From the Daily Telegraph (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/)
>Armed men seize Russian school
>(Filed: 01/09/2004)
>Up to 400 hostages, including 200 schoolchildren, are being held by armed men >who have seized a school in the Russian region of North Ossetia.
>At least three people were killed and 11 injured when the school in the city of >Beslan was first attacked. Nearly 50 children are thought to have escaped from >the building.
>As many as 17 heavily armed men and women stormed the school and have >threatened to blow up the building if police try to take it by force.
>Vladimir Yakovlev, President Vladimir Putin's envoy for the southern region of >Russia that includes North Ossetia, said: "It is not immediately clear how many
>schoolchildren and parents have been taken.
>"There is a shoot-out in the area."
Sounds as though there will be a repeat performance of the theatre job.
>Armed men seize Russian school
>(Filed: 01/09/2004)
>Up to 400 hostages, including 200 schoolchildren, are being held by armed men >who have seized a school in the Russian region of North Ossetia.
>At least three people were killed and 11 injured when the school in the city of >Beslan was first attacked. Nearly 50 children are thought to have escaped from >the building.
>As many as 17 heavily armed men and women stormed the school and have >threatened to blow up the building if police try to take it by force.
>Vladimir Yakovlev, President Vladimir Putin's envoy for the southern region of >Russia that includes North Ossetia, said: "It is not immediately clear how many
>schoolchildren and parents have been taken.
>"There is a shoot-out in the area."
Sounds as though there will be a repeat performance of the theatre job.