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Militants kill 200 as school siege ends

RUSSIA’S school siege ended in a chaotic bloodbath yesterday with more than 200 hostages and some of their captors killed when special forces stormed the building in an unplanned onslaught.

Sat, 04 Sep, 2004

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Commandos stormed a school today in southern Russia and battled separatist rebels holding hundreds of hostages as crying children, some naked and covered in blood, fled the building through explosions and gunfire.

Fri, 03 Sep, 2004

School siege ends in bloodbath - more than 150 dead

Russia’s school siege ended in a chaotic bloodbath today with more than 150 hostages and some of their captors killed when special forces stormed the building in an unplanned onslaught.

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