Armed group takes scores hostage at school in southern Russia
AFP, September, 2004
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MOSCOW (AFP) — A group of extremists wearing belts laden with explosives took up to 240 people hostage at a school in southern Russia close to war-torn Chechnya, local authorities said.
Some 20 masked, armed people dressed in black burst into the courtyard of the school in North Ossetia on the first day of the new academic year and threatened to blow the building up if troops stormed it, officials said.
"The hostage takers, who include men and women, are wearing martyrs' belts," Interfax news agency quoted Ismel Chaov, a spokesman for the North Ossetian interior ministry, as saying.
"The terrorists have made contact with the local authorities and have announced that they are going to imminently present their claims," he added.
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The hostage-taking shattered the festive atmosphere that surrounds the first day back at school in Russia and revived painful memories of a Moscow theatre hostage-taking in 2002, during ...
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