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The Beslan school siege (also referred to as the Beslan school hostage crisis or the Beslan massacre) was a rebel attack that started on 1 September 2004.
May 24, 2024 · Beslan school attack, violent takeover of a school in Beslan, a city in the North Caucasus republic of North Ossetia, Russia, in September 2004. Perpetrated by militants linked to the separatist insurgency in the nearby republic of Chechnya, the attack resulted in the deaths of more than 330 people, the majority of them children.
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Beslan (Russian: Бесла́н; Ossetian: Беслӕн, Beslæn, listen ⓘ) is a town and the administrative center of Pravoberezhny District of the Republic of North Ossetia–Alania, Russia, located about 29 kilometers (18 mi) north of the republic's capital Vladikavkaz, close to the border with the Republic of Ingushetia.
Apr 13, 2017 · The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that Russia failed to protect the hostages of the Beslan school siege in which about 330 people died in 2004. In the siege, Chechen rebels took more...
Sep 1, 2014 · On Sept. 1, 2004, the name of Beslan, a small town in Russia’s North Caucasus Republic of South Ossetia, became known all over the world. During an assembly celebrating the start of the new...
Apr 13, 2017 · The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that Russia failed to protect the hostages of the Beslan school siege in which about 330 people died in 2004. In the siege, Chechen rebels took more...
On September 1, 2004, one of the worst terrorist attacks in Russia's history unfolded at a school in the small North Ossetian town of Beslan.
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