(CNN) — Here’s a look at the Beslan school siege. On September 1, 2004, armed Chechen rebels took approximately 1,200 children and adults hostage at a school in Beslan, North Ossetia, Russia, at ...

In September 2004, on the first day of class, Chechen militants took more than 1,200 hostages in a school in Beslan, Russia. After nearly three days, explosions and gunfire ripped through the school, ...

BESLAN, Russia (Reuters) - Mourners lit candles and placed icons on Sunday beneath photographs of the schoolchildren, teachers and parents who died 20 years ago when Islamist gunmen staged the ...

Russia failed to prevent a 2004 attack on a school in the town of Beslan and then overreacted by using grenades, tanks and flamethrowers to end a three-day siege that killed more than 330 people, the ...

Two years ago, Russian Special Forces stormed a school in Beslan where Chechen separatists were holding about 1,200 people hostage. More than 300 people were killed -- nearly half of them children.