Suspect in Beslan school raid goes on trial

A court held preliminary hearings today in the trial of the only surviving suspected hostage-taker in last year’s school seizure in southern Russia.

The trial of Nur-Pashi Kulayev will start on May 17 at the Supreme Court of North Ossetia, the Russian province where the raid took place, and it will be open to the public, said Russia’s Deputy Prosecutor General Nikolai Shepel.