Russian School Siege Ends in Bloody Shootout
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Women check the identification of a child being carried on a stretcher in the province of North Ossetia near Chechnya.
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Women check the identification of a child.
More than 200 people are dead and hundreds more are injured after special forces battle militants who had taken hostages at a Russian school. A group of mostly Chechen gunmen had been holding an estimated 1,000 or more captives, far more than official estimates of 450 hostages. NPR's Lawrence Sheets reports.
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