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September 15, 2004
Beslan Children Return to School
Students nervously returned to school here on Wednesday for the first time since hundreds of children and their parents were killed in a violent end to a mass hostage-taking at a Beslan primary school.

At Beslan's Number Six school, students filed past a police guard posted at the main entrance and armed with an automatic rifle while similar strict security measures were also in place at other schools in the southern Russian town.

"I wanted to come today," said Ilona Zandiyeva, a 10-year-old student at the school. "I am a little bit scared, but I miss school."

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The return to class in Beslan came after all schools in the town and its surrounding neighbourhoods underwent extensive security checks on Monday and Tuesday involving bomb-sniffing dogs and metal weapons searches.

Meanwhile, the people of Beslan are still dealing with the counting of the dead:

Officially, the number of dead is 326, but, as of today morning, only 75 death certificates have been given out, 84 bodies are still unidentified, and 94 are considered missing. According to the unofficial list, compiled by the residents of Beslan, the number of missing is 150.

Posted by Michele at September 15, 2004 09:34 AM | TrackBack
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Send the surviving kids back to the place of recently experienced terrible events? Impossibly inappropriate.

Posted by: TomTom [TypeKey Profile Page] at September 15, 2004 11:12 PM

Children returned to school NUMBER 6, the massacre took place at school NUMBER 1, so the children returned to school, but not to the place of "recently experienced terrible events". And yes, I agree these children will have to deal with remnants of those events for years to come - in terms of social skills, concentration issues, learning difficulties.

Posted by: whatsinthename [TypeKey Profile Page] at September 16, 2004 03:07 PM

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