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 | A general view shows the school building, which was seized by heavily armed masked men and women, in the town of Beslan in the province of North Ossetia near Chechnya, September 4, 2004. At least 322 people, almost half of them children, died in the bloodbath that ended a school siege by Chechen separatists in southern Russia, a senior justice official said on Saturday. click to open  |  | Women grieve as they wait for information about missing relatives in the town of Beslan in the province of North Ossetia, near Chechnya, September 4, 2004. At least 322 people, almost half of them children, died in the bloodbath that ended a school siege by Chechen separatists in southern Russia, a senior justice official said on Saturday. click to open |  | Relatives examine a list of released hostages who were delivered to the hospital after Russian troops stormed a school seized by heavily armed masked men and women in the town of Beslan in the province of North Ossetia near Chechnya, September 4, 2004. At least 322 people, almost half of them children, died in the bloodbath that ended a school siege by Chechen separatists in southern Russia, a senior justice official said on Saturday. click to open |  | A woman helps her freed son as he leaves a hospital in the town of Beslan near Chechnya, September 4, 2004. At least 322 people, almost half of them children, died in the bloodbath that ended a school siege by Chechen separatists in southern Russia, a senior justice official said on Saturday. click to open |  | Eduard Bitsieyev, left, grieves with other relatives over the coffin of his eight-year-old son Zaur at their home in Beslan, North Ossetia, Saturday, Sept. 4, 2004. More than 340 people were killed in a southern Russian school that had been seized by militants, a prosecutor said Saturday, and President Vladimir Putin accused the attackers of trying to spark an ethnic conflict that would engulf Russia's troubled Caucasus Mountains region. click to open |  | Russian President Vladimir Putin visits a victim of the besieged school at a hospital in Beslan, September 4, 2004. Putin ordered a crackdown in seething southern Russia after a school siege killed at least 322 people including 155 children. click to open |  | Interior ministry troops put a stretcher carrying the body of a dead militant into a truck in the town of Beslan, in the province of North Ossetia near Chechnya, September 4, 2004. At least 322 people, including 155 children, died during the bloody end to a hostage-taking at a school in southern Russia, a senior prosecutor said on Saturday. click to open |  | A volunteer carries an injured girl after special forces stormed a school seized by heavily armed masked men and women in the town of Beslan in the province of North Ossetia near Chechnya, September 3, 2004. Tragic, despicable, inhumane, cowardly, barbaric, evil, and astonishing -- the deaths of a hundred or more people, including children, in a school siege in Russia sparked strong words for the hostage-takers from world leaders. click to open |  | Russian special forces troops flee a school while soldiers stormed a building seized by heavily armed masked men and women in the town of Beslan in the province of North Ossetia near Chechnya on September 3, 2004. click to open |  | A soldier helps an injured woman during the rescue operation of Beslan's school, northern Ossetia. Around 100 were killed and more than 550 injured as troops stormed a school in southern Russia. click to open |
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