A woman mourns at the cemetery of Beslan September 1, 2009. One thousand children and parents were taken hostage by Chechen separatists on the first day of the new school year on September 1, 2004. After three days of siege, Russian forces stormed the school and some of the rebels blew themselves up. A total of 333 hostages -- more than half of them children -- were killed in the chaos and hundreds were wounded. To match feature RUSSIA-BESLAN/ REUTERS/Stringer (RUSSIA CRIME LAW DISASTER EDUCATION IMAGES OF THE DAY)
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