The school siege, in the town of Beslan in North Ossetia, a part of the North Caucasus region in Russia, began around 9 a.m. on Sept. 1, 2004 — the first day of school — when about 30 militants stormed School No. 1, seizing more than 1,100 hostages, including more than 770 children. The militants were followers of the Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev. Continue reading the main story It was one in a string of spectacular attacks that shook the Kremlin in the early years of Mr. Putin’s rule. Those included the takeover of a Moscow theater in October 2002, which ended in a bloody assault by special forces troops that resulted in the deaths of some 170 hostages.In 2004…
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