Fears of revenge as Beslan ends 40 days of mourning

RESIDENTS of the grief-stricken Russian school siege town of Beslan marked the end of the 40-day mourning period for the hundreds of victims of the massacre yesterday.

They lit candles and propped up photographs among the flowers piled in the shattered gymnasium at the centre of the tragedy.

“My friends’ children died. My relatives’ children died. We are all dying from this,” said David Alexeyev in the North Ossetian town.