The first funerals of children killed in the Beslan school siege were held yesterday in the Russian province of North Ossetia as President Vladimir Putin promised a crack-down on Chechen terrorists.

Russia, stunned by the deaths of more than 300 people in the country's worst ever hostage drama, began an official period of national mourning today as the grief-stricken town of Beslan was set to ...

Funeral processions snaked through Beslan today as relatives buried the first victims of the Russian school siege, while frantic parents still searched for missing children two days after the crisis ...

Mourners prepared for the first funerals today of 330 people killed in the bloody battle that ended the siege of a southern Russian… Mourners prepared for the first funerals today of 330 people killed ...

Dozens of men dug graves yesterday in a football-field sized plot of land next to the cemetery in the southern Russian town of Beslan, preparing for the first funerals of victims of the school hostage ...

On the second day of national mourning in Russia, President Putin attacked those calling for Russia to enter talks with Chechen separatists and rejected a public inquiry into events that led to 335 ...

Hundreds of graves are being dug ahead of mass funerals in the southern Russian town of Beslan, with 150 victims of the weekend terrorist atrocity to be laid to rest and many more to follow. Russia is ...

Russia continues its second day of national mourning for Belsan, the site of the deadly school siege where 335 people, over half of them children, died. Such an ordinary street, a street like any ...

6 September 2004 -- Thousands of people turned out in the southern Russian town of Beslan today for the funerals of more than 100 of the victims of last week's school siege in the town. Officials now ...

(Beslan, Russia-AP) Sept. 6, 2004 - Russians stunned by last week's school hostage siege are observing a national day of mourning for the more than 350 people killed. In the town of Beslan townspeople ...

BESLAN, Russia — The cemetery plot reserved for the 300 victims, mostly children, of last year's hostage-taking and siege in Beslan fills up a football field. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get ...