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The Beslan school siege (also referred to as the Beslan school hostage crisis or the Beslan massacre) [2] [3] [4] was an Islamic terrorist attack that started on 1 September 2004. It lasted three days, and involved the imprisonment of more than 1,100 people as hostages, (including 777 children) [ 5 ] ending with the deaths of 334 people, 186 of ...
Sep 4, 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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Sep 3, 2024 · In the small Caucasus town, everyone had lost a relative or knew someone killed in the siege of School No. 1. Launched by heavily armed militants, mainly from Chechnya, the terror attack lasted...
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...
The Chronicles of Beslan (2004) - A look into the Beslan school siege tragedy. An event where armed Chechen extremists took over 1200 hostages in a school in Beslan Russia resulting in the deaths of 385 people which most of which were children.
The siege of Carthage was the main engagement of the Third Punic War fought between Carthage and Rome. It consisted of the nearly-three-year siege of the Carthaginian capital, Carthage (a little north east of Tunis). In 149 BC, a large Roman army landed at Utica in North Africa.
Sep 10, 2004 · A week after the bloody climax of the siege at a school in North Ossetia, where more than 1,000 children, teachers and parents were taken hostage, investigators are still piecing together what...
