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.