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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (66068)	9/1/2004 3:26:35 AM
From: KLP	Read Replies (1) of 793954

Breaking: Attackers storm Russian school news.bbc.co.uk Armed attackers have seized a secondary school in Russia, with reports saying 200 pupils are being held hostage. Russian officials were quoted as saying 17 armed men and women, some wearing explosive belts, stormed the school in the city of Beslan in North Ossetia. At least 200 pupils and possibly some parents are believed to have been in the school at the time, as it is the first day back after the holidays. An envoy in the region said a gun fight had broken out with police. The seizure comes amid heightened security following a suspected suicide bomb attack in Moscow on Tuesday night, and the bombing of two passenger planes last week. Security officials are at the scene in Beslan trying to negotiate with hostage-takers. Interfax news agency quoted Ismel Shaov, a regional Russian security services spokesperson, as saying at least 17 armed attackers are involved. Some of the attackers, which included women and men, were wearing belts of explosives. There are unconfirmed reports a second school in the town was also seized. The BBC's Sarah Rainsford in Moscow says it is not clear who the gunmen are or what they want, but it comes just two months after armed rebels from Chechnya mounted a deadly cross-border raid into nearby Ingushetia.

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