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    Aid pouring into Beslan

    News24 , South Africa
    Sept 10 2004

    Moscow - More than 150 tons of humanitarian aid has arrived in the
    southern Russian town of Beslan from around the world, civil defence
    authorities in Moscow said on Friday, a week after the tragic end of
    the school siege.

    Medicine and medical equipment, clothing, food and even mobile
    hospitals and emergency vehicles were received from donors inside
    Russia, Italy, Germany, France, the United States, Norway, Finland
    and other countries.

    Greece and Armenia also sent more than 200 litres of blood as doctors
    battle to save the lives of dozens of former hostages injured in the
    three-day school siege.

    Following the sacking of local government heads in North Ossetia and
    the appointment of successors, the republic's president Alexander
    Dzasokhov said reconstruction work in the town would commence quickly.

    "We are talking about two new schools, a modern hospital, a
    rehabilitation centre and more infrastructure," he said.

    At least 335 hostages were killed and more than 700 injured when
    gunmen blew up bombs in the school and opened fire on the hostages,
    triggering a chaotic rescue operation by security forces. - Sapa-dpa

    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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