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

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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