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Children of Beslan
Thursday, August 25, 2005
On September 1st, 2004, rebel extremists took over a school in Beslan, Russia. Over 1,000 children and adults were held hostage. The siege ended three days later in gunfire and explosions. 350 people—half of them children—were killed in the violence. Leslie Woodhead looks at what happened in a new documentary, “Children of Beslan,” which he produced and directed.
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