RUSSIA: RELATIVES IN BESLAN CONTINUE DESPERATE SEARCH FOR THOSE STILL MISSING AFTER THE SIEGE AT THE LOCAL SCHOOL.

Record ID: 590752

  • Title: RUSSIA: RELATIVES IN BESLAN CONTINUE DESPERATE SEARCH FOR THOSE STILL MISSING AFTER THE SIEGE AT THE LOCAL SCHOOL.
  • Date: 5th September 2004
  • Summary: (W4) BESLAN, NORTH OSSETIA, RUSSIA (SEPTEMBER 5, 2004) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. WS/EXTERIOR: OF BESLAN'S HOUSE OF CULTURE BUILDING/ CROWD OUTSIDE. 0.08 2. MV: PEOPLE CHECKING LISTS OF NAMES POSTED OUTSIDE BUILDING, SEARCHING FOR THEIR LOVED ONES/ WS: SOME PEOPLE CRYING AND BEING COMFORTED. 0.21 3. VARIOUS: PHOTOGRAPHS OF CHILDREN PLACED NEAR LISTS OF NAMES BY PARENTS LOOKING FOR THEM/WOMAN COMPILING LIST OF MISSING PEOPLE. (7 SHOTS) 1.06 4. MV: MAN HOLDING PICTURE OF MISSING DAUGHTER. 1.11 5. SCU: (SOUNDBITE) (Russian) MAXIM SABEYEV, LOOKING FOR HIS 15-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER ILONA, SAYING: "I am looking for my daughter, she is 15-years-old, her name is Ilona Sabeyeva. She was seen running out of the school, and since then we have no other information; we don't know where to look for her. We went to hospitals and morgues but couldn't find her anywhere on the lists, neither on the hospital lists nor in the morgues." 1.30 6. CU: PICTURES OF MISSING CHILDREN. 1.36 7. SCU: (SOUNDBITE) (Russian) YEMA KHARITONOVA, AN OFFICIAL FROM THE LOCAL EDUCATION OFFICE, HELPING TO COMPILE LISTS OF INJURED WHO ARE IN HOSPITALS, SAYING: "285 (people) from yesterday and today (wounded and dead)." 1.45 8. MV/CU: MAN HOLDING PHOTOGRAPH OF A MISSING BOY. (2 SHOTS) 1.59 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 20th September 2004 13:00
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  • Location: BESLAN, NORTH OSSETIA, RUSSIA
  • Country: Russia
  • Reuters ID: LVA99MAQQS3V9Q7RBY2RWMDTFWO8
  • Story Text: In Beslan, some families continue desparate search
    for loved ones.



    Mourners in Beslan began preparations on Sunday
    (September 5) for the first funerals of the 330 people
    killed in the bloody battle that ended the siege of a
    southern Russian school on Friday (September 3), meanwhile
    some of the residents still did not know if their loved
    ones had survived.

    Hundreds of wounded were still being treated in
    hospitals in Beslan and nearby towns, and distraught
    relatives -- caught between hope and despair -- scanned
    hand-written lists of living patients or toured morgues
    trying to identify the dead.

    Hospital doctors tried to help on Saturday (September
    4) by displaying photographs of unidentified patients,
    children too small or too shocked to give their names.

    Many townspeople, still stunned by the ferocity of the
    battle between security forces and the Chechen militants
    who stormed the school on Wednesday (September 1) and took
    more than 1,000 hostages, have spent two days searching for
    friends or family.

    Of the 330 known to have died, 155 were children, the
    rest their parents and teachers, all trapped in the school
    where they had gathered for festivities marking the first
    day of term.

    Most people were killed on Friday, when special forces
    assaulted the school after hearing huge explosions in the
    gym and seeing hostage takers shooting fleeing children.



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