A group of more than 30 terrorists seized Beslan’s School Number One on the morning of September 1, 2004, kidnapping over 1,000 people, including small children BESLAN, September 3. /TASS/. The ...

MOSCOW -- On September 1, 2004, School No. 1 in Beslan, North Ossetia, welcomed children back after the summer break. There were nerves and excitement as a crowd of 1,128 parents, teachers, and pupils ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE PHOTO: People hold a banner with photographs of the victims of the Beslan school in front of 334 candles arranged to spell ...

“I expected the death penalty, and it is not right he was sentenced to life in prison,” Rita Sidakova, a leader of the group Mothers of Beslan, said in an Associated Press report. “He is guilty of the ...

A southern Russian court on Friday sentenced the sole surviving Beslan school attacker to life in prison, capping a yearlong trial that survivors and victims' relatives say has left the most essential ...

The world began to change on September 1, 2004, the day the Russia-held-captive ordeal began in a little school in a little southern town called Beslan. When it ended on September 4 after an agonizing ...

A Russian judge said on Tuesday the only surviving member of the group that seized a school and 1,300 hostages in the town of Beslan in 2004 had committed an act of terrorism, as he began reading his ...

RFE/RL coverage and analysis of events in Russia's war-ravaged republic. For news and analysis on Russia by e-mail, subscribe to "RFE/RL Russia Report." 1 A Beslan commemoration ceremony in St.

Russia failed to prevent a 2004 attack on a school in the town of Beslan and then overreacted by using grenades, tanks and flamethrowers to end a three-day siege that killed more than 330 people, the ...

MOSCOW — The only attacker known to have survived the 2004 Beslan school siege, which ended with the deaths of 331 hostages, was convicted of murder Friday and sentenced to life imprisonment. The ...