‘In the name of the children, we should have gone to any lengths, any lengths at all. We failed them’

THOUSANDS of mourners carrying flowers filed into a gutted school gymnasium and then to a cemetery where rows of graves bore children’s names and pictures yesterday.

They were commemorating the anniversary of the hostage tragedy that claimed 331 lives.

Policemen lined the streets of the small town in the southern Russian region of North Ossetia and mourners had to go through metal detectors to reach the schoolyard.