Mothers of victims of the Beslan school seizure, their grief mixed with fury a year after Russia’s deadliest hostage-taking raid, said today that the government had failed to learn from the tragedy and had left the country vulnerable to equally devastating terrorist attacks.

Radical Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev today claimed in an internet posting that Russian security services bore responsibility for last year’s bloody Beslan school siege by allegedly providing the attackers a safe corridor through the region in an attempt to trap them.

Fifteen women, including mothers of children killed in last year’s Beslan school seizure, left a courtroom today where they had staged an overnight protest to demand that high-level officials also be prosecuted in the case.

Russian prosecutors are resuming their case today against Nur-Pashi Kulayev, the only man to go on trial for the Beslan school raid that killed more than 330 people.

SURVIVORS of the Beslan school hostage crisis and relatives of the dead crammed into a courtroom yesterday to catch a glimpse of the only man to go on trial for the terror attack.

CHECHEN rebel leader Aslan Maskhadov ordered his bodyguards to kill him to avoid being captured by Russian forces.

Chechen rebel leader Aslan Maskhadov ordered his bodyguards to kill him to avoid being captured by Russia forces.

Russian prosecutors say they have arrested four people in connection with the school siege in Beslan last year, which left more than 330 people dead.

Russian authorities have killed five people suspected of aiding September’s school hostage-taking in southern Russia and arrested four other suspects, prosecutors said today.

Russian authorities have detained two people on suspicion of being linked to terrorists who held more than 1,000 people hostage in a school in September.

Forensic tests have shown that some of the militants who seized more than 1,000 hostages in a school in the southern Russian town of Beslan last month were drug addicts, a senior prosecutor said.

Some of the terrorists who seized more than 1,000 hostages in a school in Beslan last month were drug addicts, a senior prosecutor said today.