ATTENTION EDITORS; VISUALS COVERAGE OF SCENES OF DEATH AND INJURY. A woman grieves over the body of her child
killed when Russian troops stormed a school seized by 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/Sergei Karpukhin
An injured schoolgirl who escaped from a seized school holds a cross in her hand in a hospital in Beslan, North Ossetia, Friday, Sept. 3,
2004. Commandos stormed a school Friday in southern Russia where hundreds of hostages had been held for three days, sending
hostage-takers and their captives fleeing in a scene of chaos amid explosions and gunfire. More than 100 children were wounded in the
assault, some running from the building naked and covered in blood. (AP Photo/Musa Sadulayev)