At least 28 people were killed today when a Russian airliner crashed.

A bus carrying children on a sightseeing tour crashed in western Russia, killing one schoolgirl and injuring eight others, officials said.

Thirteen coal miners died after an explosion ripped through a coal mine early today in western Siberia, officials said.

A numb Russia observed a national day of mourning for the more than 350 victims of the terrorist school seizure today, while desperate families searched for the missing in grief-stricken Beslan and criticism of the government mounted.

Emergency workers stopped the flow of water into a flooded mine in southern Russia where 13 miners have been trapped for five days, officials said, as drillers came within yards of the men’s presumed location.

Emergency workers today stopped the flow of water into a flooded mine in southern Russia where 13 miners have been trapped for five days, officials said, as drillers came within yards of the men’s presumed location.

Emergency workers today stopped the flow of water into a flooded Russian coal mine where 13 men have been trapped for five days as drillers came within yards of the men’s presumed location.

Two suicide bombers were among up to eight people killed today when a truck packed with explosives blew up near a government compound in the Chechen capital Grozny.