Members of the State Duma commission investigating the Beslan tragedy said Thursday that a preliminary draft of the report indicated that an accidental explosion, not a planned storming of the school by government troops, set off the ensuing bloody firefight. Duma Deputy Arkady Baskayev, a member of the commission, told Gazeta.ru on Thursday that an accidental explosion inside the school where terrorists were holding hostages set off the firefight that led to the death of 330 people, more than half of them children. "We have the general view that the explosion itself inside the school was an accident," Baskayev told...
