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NINE ARMENIANS DEATH IN BESLAN SCHOOL SIEGE CONFIRMED
ArmenPress
Sept 8 2004
ROSTOV ON DON, SEPTEMBER 8, ARMENPRESS: According to the latest
information from Armenian consul general in the southern Russia,
Ararat Gomtsian, at least nine of the hostages killed by the
terrorists in Beslan school siege were ethnic Armenians. Five of them
were children. He said all Armenians who suffered in the crisis were
taken to hospitals in Moscow and one, Mariam Simonian, to a hospital
IN Rostov-on-Don city. All in all 33 ethnic Armenians were among the
hostages, seven of them are reported missing. Another official of
the Armenian consulate general said the figures were not final and
could change any minute.
At least 335 people, most of them children, have been officially
confirmed dead since Russian special forces stormed a secondary school
in the North Ossetian town of Beslan seized by Islamist militants
fighting for neighboring Chechnya's secession from Russia.
ArmenPress
Sept 8 2004
ROSTOV ON DON, SEPTEMBER 8, ARMENPRESS: According to the latest
information from Armenian consul general in the southern Russia,
Ararat Gomtsian, at least nine of the hostages killed by the
terrorists in Beslan school siege were ethnic Armenians. Five of them
were children. He said all Armenians who suffered in the crisis were
taken to hospitals in Moscow and one, Mariam Simonian, to a hospital
IN Rostov-on-Don city. All in all 33 ethnic Armenians were among the
hostages, seven of them are reported missing. Another official of
the Armenian consulate general said the figures were not final and
could change any minute.
At least 335 people, most of them children, have been officially
confirmed dead since Russian special forces stormed a secondary school
in the North Ossetian town of Beslan seized by Islamist militants
fighting for neighboring Chechnya's secession from Russia.