A video image shows dead children placed on stretchers after special forces stormed a school seized by heavily armed gunmen in the town
of Beslan, in the province of North Ossetia near Chechnya, September 3, 2004. Russian soldiers battled Chechen separatists on Friday to
end a two-day-old school siege and more than 150 people have probably died, Interfax quoted a presidential adviser as saying. Some
children are still captive, but more than 400 hostages have been freed, it said. REUTERS/Reuters TV