Russia hostages evacuated, commandos fighting kidnappers
(Reuters)
Updated: 2004-09-03 21:02

Russian special forces troops take cover while soldiers storm a school building seized by heavily armed masked men and women in the town of Beslan in the province of North Ossetia near Chechnya , September 3, 2004. A hundred or more people were killed when Russian troops stormed a school on Friday in a chaotic battle to free parents, teachers and children who had been held hostage for 53 hours by Chechen separatists. [Reuters]

Russian special forces troops flee a school while soldiers storm a building seized by heavily armed masked men and women in the town of Beslan in the province of North Ossetia near Chechnya, September 3, 2004. [Reuters]

Russian special forces troops drag the body of a civilian killed in the school seized by heavily armed masked men and women in the town of Beslan in the province of North Ossetia near Chechnya, September 3, 2004. [Reuters]

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