Photographs and belonging of Svetlana Tsoi, a school girl who was killed during the hostage drama in school No. 1 in Beslan, Nor
Photographs and belonging of Svetlana Tsoi, a school girl who was killed during the hostage drama in school No. 1 in Beslan, North Ossetia, Russia. Heavily armed terrorists demanding that Russian troops pull back from the republic of Chechnya took over a thousand school children and their teachers hostage in the school on the 1st of September, 2004. Hundreds of hostages, including 186 children, died when Russian forces stormed the school on the 3rd of September. Altogether 334 were killed during the three days of the hostage drama.
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Photo credit: © Geert Groot Koerkamp / Alamy / Afripics
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Keywords: ., 1, basaev, basayev, beslan, caucasus, chechnya, hostages, north, ossetia, russia, school, soviet, terror, terrorism, union, ussr