Russia’s school siege terror

SUICIDE attackers who seized a packed school in Russia’s troubled Caucuses region yesterday have threatened to kill 50 children for every gunman “destroyed”.

The 17 gunmen and women - wearing suicide bomb belts - were holding more than 400 hostages, including 200 children in the school in Beslan, North Ossetia, bordering Chechnya.

Suspicion immediately fell on Chechan separatists who have been battling the Russian army for more than a decade for an independent nation.