Russian prosecutors head to Beslan on Putin's orders

Six Russian prosecutors today headed to the southern town of Beslan after President Vladimir Putin ordered an investigation of all the facts in last year’s bloody school hostage-taking, in which 331 victims died.

The group, led by deputy prosecutor General Vladimir Kolesnikov, will meet surviving victims and other residents of the town, including representatives of the Beslan Mothers’ Committee, the Prosecutor General’s office said.

The mothers’ committee has been highly critical of the investigation so far, and Putin promised its representatives in a meeting last week that he would try to deal with their grievances.