Russia mourns as criticism mounts

A numb Russia observed a national day of mourning for the more than 350 victims of the terrorist school seizure today, while desperate families searched for the missing in grief-stricken Beslan and criticism of the government mounted.

In the Caucasus town 1,000 miles south of Moscow, people crowded around the coffins of children, parents, grandparents and teachers ahead of the 120 burials scheduled in the town cemetery and adjoining fields today.