Family mourns mother and daughter shown on tape

The accordion Sima Alikova once played lies mute on a bed in her family’s living room, amid a pile of clothes, pictures, toys and even a toothbrush that she and her nine-year-old daughter, Irina, once used.

It’s all the family has left from the two, who were among the hundreds of hostages who died in the siege at School Number One in Beslan – and who Alikova’s co-workers say were seen cowering on the floor of the crowded gymnasium in a videotape apparently taken by their captors on September 1, the first day of the attack.