Beslan mothers say government failed to learn

Mothers of victims of the Beslan school seizure, their grief mixed with fury a year after Russia’s deadliest hostage-taking raid, said today that the government had failed to learn from the tragedy and had left the country vulnerable to equally devastating terrorist attacks.

The Chechen warlord who claimed responsibility for the assault that ended with more than 330 people dead – apparently playing on suspicions of a state cover-up - alleged that Russian security services provided the attackers with a safe corridor through the region in a bungled plot to trap them.