Militants free 26, but hundreds still held hostage at Russian school
AFP, September, 2004
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BESLAN, Russia (AFP) — Militants freed 26 women and toddlers but kept hundreds more locked up in a southern Russian school without food for the third day in a crisis that President Vladimir Putin said should not be resolved by force in the short term.
As dawn broke, so did gunfire and the realisation by panicked mothers -- their faces contorting in tears -- that their children were trapped in the cold and surrounded by masked guerrillas and no clear government rescue plan.
Taimuzar, one of many here who believes up to 1,000 people may be in the school and not the 330 reported by officials, said he has not eaten or slept for three days.
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"How can I sleep? They are not sleeping. How can I eat? They are not eating," said the man, whose sister and her two daughters are trapped inside.
There were stirring scenes Thursday as gun-toting men ...
