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Snapshot of developments in Russian hostage crisis
(Reuters)
Updated: 2004-09-03 22:45
These are the key developments on Sept. 3, 2004, the day on which the hostage
crisis involving hundreds of children and adults held by an armed gang at a
school in Russia's North Ossetia, near rebel Chechnya, came to a bloody end.
NEWS
- Tass says gunmen are still firing from a building in the school compound
- Interfax says more than 10 of the school hostage-takers have been
killed in shootouts with Russian troops, gunfire is still heard from other parts
of town
- An Interfax correspondent says he saw more than 100 bodies in the
school gym, Tass says more than 400 were wounded
- Russian forces had planned more talks, had not planned to assault the
school, a senior Russian security official says
- Russian troops assault the school after gang fire on captives trying
to escape amid large explosions
- Children in underwear run out from the school, are tended by medics
and evacuated to hospitals by ambulances and cars
QUOTES
"We are here being confronted with a deep human tragedy," Dutch Foreign
Minister Bernard Bot says.
CHRONOLOGY
Wednesday
- Gunmen seize the hostages at a school in the North Ossetian town of
Beslan on Wednesday, first day of school term. Between seven and 16 people are
killed.
- Hostage-takers, numbering between 17 and 40, threaten to kill 50
children for every fighter killed.
- Within hours, nearly 50 children manage to escape. Gunmen set free 15 more.
- Putin breaks off his seaside holiday and returns to Moscow.
- Russia sends troops to guard nuclear facilities.
- Representative of Chechen rebel leader Aslan Maskhadov denies
involvement by forces loyal to him.
- UN Security Council demands release of hostages.
Thursday
- Captors free 26 women and children.
- Putin calls off trip to Turkey.
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