Beslan. It is 10 years on September 1, 2014 since the school hostage crisis in the town of Beslan, North Ossetia, when terrorists occupied the building of a local school, Rossiyskaya Gazeta writes.
On this day, 10 years ago, the first school bell heard became the last one for 186 children and 148 adults.
Chechen terrorists captured over 1,200 students, their parents and teachers on September 1, 2004.
The hostages were kept for 3 days without food and water at the sports hall of the school.
First the men and older students were shot to death.
None of the survivors believed on the third day he or she would live.
12 members of the special services and a local citizen were killed in the process of freeing the hostages, while some 810 people, among whom there were hostages, Federal Security Service employees and employees of the Ministry of Emergency Situations and the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
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