Posted on 09/06/2004 3:44:27 PM PDT by gopwinsin04
Russia on Sunday buried some of the victims of the hostage crisis in Beslan with three more children succumbing to injuries taking the toll in the school to 333 as parents and relatives continued to search for the 260 missing.
Reports quoting morgue officials said the toll in the bloddy drama in the Belsan city climbed to at least 394.
In a parallel development, North Ossetia's Interior Minister Kazbek Dzantiyev resigned accepting the responsibility for flaws in security leading to the school siege.
President Vladimir Putin has declared days of national nourning for Monday and Tuesday, when most of the terror victims will be buried.
Flags will be flown at half mast and all entertainment programming will be cancelled throught the country.
Parents and relatives of 260 hostages in the Beslan school are still unable to trace their dear ones.
In all there were 1,184 hostages inside the school.
Four hundred and forty eight are still in hospital of which 69 are still in critical condition, official spokesperson for the North Ossetan administration Lev Dzugayev said.
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Damn!
This friggin' nightmare keeps getting worse :(
It is hard to understand how 260 people can be missing within an area the size of a school. Did some of the terrorists escape with hostages, or were the explosions and fires bad enough to consume 260 people?
That is the most precious picture.
THAT is scary.
The Russian goverment has been lowballing the numbers for days, this is going to get much worse..I'm hoping this is close to an accuate count
We can expect many repeats of this same abomination here if Kerry's elected.
How many angels of the dead and injured children with direct access are currently imploring the Lord for justice? I wouldn't want to be an Islamist.
The Lord will strike these jackals down with furious vengence.
Horrendous
Big time prayers for all those in suffering.
I would like to know how 260 people could be "missing". That is very odd. Where else could they be???
I have a bad feeling that those "missing" were obliterated by bomb blasts. Either from those explosives set on the walls or the ones on the suicide bombers. Keep in mind that those suicide belts contain ball bearings, screws, and nails to increase casualties and to demolish whatever is near. I hope that Russia decides to let Israel help with rehabilitation of the children since the victims probably have wounds that Israel is familiar with.
These reports of numbers all conflict.
Why don't they release the OFFICIAL number?
A man is changed instantly and permanently when he returns home to a crater where his family was.
--Alexander Lebed
My heart goes out to the Russian nation. Down with the Chechen terrorist scum and their Arab brethren!
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