Russian children not the first young victims

WITH regard to your editorial about the Russian school siege (Irish Examiner, Sept 2), while I agree that this kind of action is indeed vile, I would like to point out that it is most definitely not new.

Russian children not the first young victims
Sat, 04 Sep, 2004 - 01:00

On May 15, 1974, terrorists from the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine crossed the Lebanese border into Israel and broke into a high school in the town of Ma’alot.

They immediately killed a security guard and some of the children, and took the remaining children and teachers as hostages.

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