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This Happened — September 1: Beslan School Hostage Crisis

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Post date September 1, 2023

The Beslan school hostage crisis began on this day in 2004. What was the Beslan school hostage crisis? The Beslan school hostage crisis was a violent terrorist attack that occurred in September 2004, in the town of Beslan, North Ossetia, Russia. Armed militants took over School Number One, holding hostage more than one thousand people, […]

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Victims of Beslan Terror Still Search For Comfort, Wait For Answers

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Post date September 11, 2013

Russian schoolboys standing where the Beslan hostage crisis took placeon Sept.1, 2004 Xinhua/ZUMA

On the first day of school in Sept 2004, after terrorists took hundreds of children and parents hostage in Russia’s Northern Caucasus region, a bloodbath ensued. Questions and scars linger.

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