Even the doctors cry for wounded

UNDER different circumstances, 20-month-old Azamat Mukagov would be the envy of his siblings, lying in a bed strewn with toys: a soft pink seal, a red sports car, a rattle.

But his bed is in a Moscow hospital to which some of the most severely wounded children from the school hostage crisis in southern Russia have been airlifted.

He cannot play with the toys because his hands, stained orange with iodine, are tied to the bed rails to stop him from touching his wounds.