The Beslan school hostage crisis (also referred to as the Beslan school siege or Beslan massacre) started on September 1, 2004. It lasted for three days and involved the capture of over 1,000 ...

The footage, recorded by the hostage-takers possibly on the first ... Militants seized the Beslan school on September 1, a day after a suicide bombing in Moscow killed 10 people and just over ...

Masked men and women, wearing bomb belts, burst into Beslan's School Number One ... Only one of the hostage takers was caught alive and put on trial. For more than a decade, survivors and ...

Russia's President Vladimir Putin lays flowers as he visits the destroyed school, where in 2004 Chechen militants took more than 1,000 people hostage, in Beslan, North Ossetia on August 20 ...