The Beslan school siege, also referred to as the Beslan school hostage crisis or the Beslan massacre, [2] [3] [4] was an Islamic terrorist attack that started on 1 September 2004. It lasted three days, and involved the imprisonment of more than 1,100 people as hostages, including 777 children, [ 5 ] ending with the deaths of 334 people, 186 of ...

Jan 17, 2025 · Beslan school attack, violent takeover of a school in Beslan, a city in the North Caucasus republic of North Ossetia, Russia, in September 2004. Perpetrated by militants linked to the separatist insurgency in the nearby republic of Chechnya, the attack resulted in the deaths of more than 330 people, the majority of them children. The scale of ...

Sep 3, 2024 · In the small Caucasus town, everyone had lost a relative or knew someone killed in the siege of School No. 1. Launched by heavily armed militants, mainly from Chechnya, the terror attack lasted...

Sep 9, 2012 · Over the following years, accusations were leveled, several inquiries opened closed, and ended with pledges from politicians and military officials that they’ve learned from Beslan.

Sep 3, 2024 · In the small Caucasus town, everyone had lost a relative or knew someone killed in the siege of School No. 1. Launched by heavily armed militants, mainly from Chechnya, the terror attack lasted...

Apr 13, 2017 · The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that Russia failed to protect the hostages of the Beslan school siege in which about 330 people died in 2004. In the siege, Chechen rebels took more...

The Beslan school hostage crisis (also referred to as the Beslan school siege or Beslan Massacre) began when armed Chechen terrorists took more than 1200 school children and adults hostage on 1 September 2004, at School Number One (SNO) in …

On September 1, 2004, 32 Chechen terrorists seized a school in the town of Beslan in North Ossetia. 1,128 people, most of whom were children, became hostages and were kept in unbearable and cruel...

May 16, 2023 · The Beslan school siege began on September 1, 2004, when a group of Chechen gunmen attacked a school in southern Russia. The gunmen kept over 1,000 hostages in the school’s cramped, hot, gym, threatening to slaughter everyone unless Russia obeyed their demand to withdraw its troops from Chechnya.

On September 1, 2004, one of the worst terrorist attacks in Russia's history unfolded at a school in the small North Ossetian town of Beslan.