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September 05, 2004
3 Suspects Arrested over School Massacre

But the final death toll may exceed 400.

From ITAR-TASS via the AFP and thence the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) :
Police have arrested three suspects who they believe played a part in organising the hostage taking of a Russian school that resulted in hundreds dead, ITAR-TASS news agency reported today.

"All three of them are admitting to guilt," the news agency quoted North Ossetian interior ministry spokesman Ismel Shaov as saying.

"According to their testimony, we hope to find the people who ordered this attack," he said.

He said one of the three was believed to have been linked to previous alleged terror attacks.

According to the latest official toll, 330 people, half of them children, died in the three day stand-off that ended Friday in a six-hour gunfire exchange.

However, a worker at the main morgue that received bodies from the school told AFP that 394 corpses from the incident have been received to far.

Posted by Alan Brain at September 5, 2004 10:19 AM | TrackBack
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"All three of them are admitting to guilt," the news agency quoted North Ossetian interior ministry spokesman Ismel Shaov as saying.

Given that they're facing Russian interrogaters who are extremely pissed, that's not a surprise. My question is: are they giving any useful information?

Posted by: Greg D [TypeKey Profile Page] at September 5, 2004 04:46 PM

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