Terror In Russia

Paramedics register bodies of victims killed in the school seizure at a morgue in Vladikavkaz, North Ossetia, Saturday, Sept. 4, 2004. The bodies were brought to Vladikavkaz for identification. Latest reports say 340 people were killed in a southern Russian school that had been seized by militants, a prosecutor said Saturday.

Russian President Vladimir Putin visits a hospital in Beslan, Northern Ossetia on Sept. 4 to meet victims of the school hostage crisis. A three-day standoff at the school turned into a gunfight between Russian commandos and Chechen militants holding hundreds of hostages. The death toll now stands at over 300.

Ossetians read lists of those hostages who escaped from a seized school outside Beslan's hospital on Sept. 4, 2004.

An injured schoolgirl who escaped from a seized Russian school holds a cross in her hand in a hospital in Beslan, North Ossetia, Russia, Sept. 3, 2004.

An injured girl who escaped from a seized school is given first aid in a temporary hospital in Beslan, North Ossetia, Sept. 3, 2004.

Injured people are driven away in a car from at the school in Beslan, North Ossetia, Russia, Sept. 3, 2004.

A mother and her daughter who were hostages and escaped from a seized school in Beslan, North Ossetia, are seen Sept. 3, 2004.

A man carries an injured child who escaped from a seized school in Beslan, North Ossetia, Sept. 3, 2004.

Commandos seen near a seized school in Beslan, North Ossetia, Sept. 3, 2004.

A man carries a wounded child from a seized Russian school in Beslan, North Ossetia, Sept. 3, 2004.

Special forces soldiers take position at a seized school in Beslan, North Ossetia, Sept. 3, 2004.

Men carry a stretcher with a victim from a seized school in Beslan, North Ossetia, Sept. 3, 2004.

A wounded boy is carried after he escaped from a school in Beslan, Northern Ossetia, Russia, Sept. 3, 2004.

A mother comforts her son as he awaits medical attention near the school in southern Russia where militants were holding hundreds of people captive in Beslan, North Ossetia, Sept. 3, 2004.

People run across a road near the school in southern Russia where militants were holding hundreds of people captive in Beslan, North Ossetia, in this image from television, Sept. 3, 2004.

A unidentified man carries a child in bandages after the youngster escaped from a seized school in Beslan, Northern Ossetia, Sept. 3, 2004.

Ossetian women, relatives of those held hostage at a school, react in Beslan, North Ossetia, Sept. 3, 2004.

A wounded boy is carried by Ossetians to an ambulance after he escaped from a seized school, in Beslan, Northern Ossetia, Sept. 3, 2004.

Released children drink water near a school in Beslan, Northern Ossetia, Russia, Sept. 3, 2004, in this image taken from television. Many of the children were only partly clothed because of the stifling heat in the gymnasium where they had been held since the militants took the building three days ago.

An injured woman is assisted near the school in southern Russia where militants were holding hundreds of people captive in Beslan, North Ossetia, Sept. 3, 2004.