The survivors and families of victims of this morning gather in Beslan, Russia, on the anniversary of the tragedy which killed more than 330 people, of which 172 children. Five years ago, Chechen rebels seized and detained more than 1,000 children and parents who attended the celebration of the beginning of the school year.
Hundreds of people gathered in Beslan, Russia, on the anniversary of the tragedy which killed more than 330 people, of which 172 children and more than 1,200 people were injured, there are agencies.
School bell in 9 hours and 15 minutes in Moscow (7.15 Central European) time at the ruins of "School Number One in Beslan town severnoosetijskom, today began a three-day memorial to victims of terrorist attacks.
In the courtyard of the former school gathered more than 2,500 people who pass the flowers and wreaths and lighting candles at the place of sports hall, where three days the terrorists held hostage more than 1,200 people.
Among the first to place flowers at the tragedy that has shaken the whole world passed the President of the Russian republic of North Ossetia Tajmuraz Mamsurov, whose son and daughter also were among the hostages.
Visitors survived by tradition and bring water bottles and children's toys.
On the first day of teaching, 2004. The school in this town about fifteen kilometers from Vladikavkaz raided a group of terrorists in the gymnasium held hostage parents and children.
The city of angels ...
According to the testimony of survivors, parents with children went to school the first day of classes, where they saw a group of "bradatih people" armed with machines, which drove them into the sports hall.
The second day they turned one of the terrorists, after which several women with babies released, but even then the hostages were allowed to drink water and go to the toilet.
Many of them are and onesvešćivali of zagušljivosti and thirst, and several children and killed, not to escape from terrorists, but running towards the fountain in the school yard.
On Friday 3 September around noon operational headquarters arranged a surrender of the body of murdered during the first day, but at the moment preparing for the takeover, the hall echoed two ekplozije, after which some hostages began to flee, and terrorists to fire on them.
At that time, the special unit started the attack on the building that lasted until late at night.
After the first explosion in the hostage release operation, the hall is utrčalo 11 terrorists and taken as human shields present.
The dining room was 50 people. The terrorists are running hostages shot in the back, but most managed to escape from the building of schools, said the witnesses in the investigation.
In the finish the three-day operation, 3 September, killed 335 hostages and members of security forces, and disabled the other 126 of them, including 70 children.
The victims were buried at the memorial, "child cemetery, which last year carries the official name" City of angels "in which the monument was erected" Tree of sadness. "
It was determined that the planned attack in Beslan Chechen extremist leaders Aslan Maskhadov and Basayev Šamilj, and conducted a group of terrorists, mostly from Chechnya and Ingushetia, among which were two teroristkinje "šahide.
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