Russia hostages evacuated, commandos fighting kidnappers (Reuters) Updated: 2004-09-03 21:02
Russian special forces troops take cover while
soldiers storm a school building seized by heavily armed masked men and
women in the town of Beslan in the province of North Ossetia near Chechnya
, September 3, 2004. A hundred or more people were killed when Russian
troops stormed a school on Friday in a chaotic battle to free parents,
teachers and children who had been held hostage for 53 hours by Chechen
separatists. [Reuters] |
Russian special forces troops flee a
school while soldiers storm a building seized by heavily armed masked men
and women in the town of Beslan in the province of North Ossetia near
Chechnya, September 3, 2004. [Reuters] |
Russian special forces troops drag the
body of a civilian killed in the school seized by heavily armed masked men and
women in the town of Beslan in the province of North Ossetia near Chechnya,
September 3, 2004. [Reuters] |
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