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September 03, 2004
Russia update: Vladikavkaz hospitals accommodating 456

Interfax: Vladikavkaz hospitals accommodating 456

MOSCOW. Sept 3 (Interfax) - The North Ossetian Health Ministry said the number of people taken to Vladikavkaz hospitals after being wounded in the hostage crisis in Beslan stood at 456 as of 8:00 p.m. Moscow time.

"According to the latest information, 30 [more] people were taken to the North Ossetian children's clinical hospital in Vladikavkaz," a ministry spokesman said.

Earlier reports said 426 victims were being treated in Vladikavkaz hospitals as of 7:00 p.m., and two of them later died.

The wounded people are being taken to the children's clinical hospital, the emergency medicine clinical hospital, the Ardon district hospital, and the clinic of the North Ossetian State Medical Academy in Vladikavkaz, he said.
Posted by Willie Galang at September 3, 2004 01:00 PM | TrackBack
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there's more there... i've read the beslan and vladikavkaz hospitals together are now accomodating 600 plus..

the official hostage count given was obviously vastly understated.. two of the hostages have given interviews to the press last night, one saying 1000 people were being, another saying it was 1500 or more.. the former president of ingushetia, who was allowed inside to negotiate yesterday has also said there were more than a thousand people inside.. so the question is, what happened to the rest of the hostages?

Posted by: anonymous [TypeKey Profile Page] at September 3, 2004 01:36 PM

they also say there are around 50 hostages still in the possession of the terrorists, plus the 100-150 already said to be found dead leaves more than a hundred people unaccounted for...

the news by the way are from russian news sites, newsru.com and gazeta.ru - they're in russian, but the latter also has an english site

Posted by: anonymous [TypeKey Profile Page] at September 3, 2004 01:39 PM

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