Beslan mourns at school massacre funerals

Funeral processions snaked through Beslan today as relatives buried the first victims of the Russian school siege, while frantic parents still searched for missing children two days after the crisis erupted into violence that left more than 350 people dead.

Wails of mourning women echoed from courtyards where families made ritual meals and from a football-field sized plot of land next to the cemetery where men dug graves as surveyors across the road marked out new plots with wooden stakes and string.