Fifteen minutes after the train left the station, it passed the school in Beslan where the hostage crisis had taken place -- a painful reminder of what everyone was trying to forget on this vacation.

The Beslan school hostage crisis (also referred to as the Beslan school siege or Beslan massacre) started on September 1, 2004, when a gang of 30 terrorists seized Beslan’s school No. 1 on the ...

Over 1,200 people were taken hostage during the terrorist attack at a school in Beslan on September 1, 2004, the tragedy claimed 334 lives, including 186 children MOSCOW, December 10./TASS/.