Siege boy tells of sitting by terrorist bomb

In the terrifying video of the Russian school hostage siege, 10-year-old Georgy Farniyev sat near a bomb, his hands behind his head and his face a mask of misery.

In the terrifying video of the Russian school hostage siege, 10-year-old Georgy Farniyev sat near a bomb, his hands behind his head and his face a mask of misery.

He looked certain to die, but survived through luck, self-possession beyond his years and enough grit to pull shrapnel out of his own arm.

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