RUSSIA: THE MORGUE AT VLADIKAVKAZ OVERWHELMED WITH BODIES FROM THE BESLAN SCHOOL SIEGE. / COFFINS PREPARED FOR BURIALS.
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RUSSIA: THE MORGUE AT VLADIKAVKAZ OVERWHELMED WITH BODIES FROM THE BESLAN SCHOOL SIEGE. / COFFINS PREPARED FOR BURIALS.
- Title: RUSSIA: THE MORGUE AT VLADIKAVKAZ OVERWHELMED WITH BODIES FROM THE BESLAN SCHOOL SIEGE. / COFFINS PREPARED FOR BURIALS.
- Date: 5th September 2004
- Summary: (U3) VLADIKAVKAZ, NORTH OSSETIA, RUSSIA (SEPTEMBER 5, 2004) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. WS: EXTERIOR OF MORGUE COMPOUND. 0.05 2. VARIOUS: OF COFFINS BEING TAKEN FROM TRUCK. (4 SHOTS) 0.48 3. MV: MAN COUNTING COFFINS LEFT ON TRUCK. 0.56 4. SCU: (SOUNDBITE) (Russian) SOLTAN TZHAVREDOV, MANAGER AT COFFIN MAKERS SAYING: "I have never seen so many coffins being made. This is a tragedy, the like of which the world has not seen before." 1.03 5. VARIOUS: OF COFFINS BEING PREPARED FOR BURIALS. (4 SHOTS) 1.32 6. TRACK: PREPARED COFFINS BEING CARRIED TO MORGUE COMPOUND. 1.44 7. VARIOUS:PEOPLE ARRIVING AT MORGUE / SOME WEEPING. (2 SHOTS) 2.03 8. VARIOUS: RELATIVES AND POLICE AND MORGUE OFFICIALS CHECKING BODIES / SOME WEEPING AND WEARING SURGICAL MASKS. (10 SHOTS) 3.31 9. SCU: WOMAN WEEPING / PAN TO OTHER WOMAN. 3.44 10. MV: OF THREE WOMEN WEEPING IN FRONT OF CAR. 3.48 11. CU/WS: MAN INSIDE CAR WEEPING. (2 SHOTS) 4.00 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
- Embargoed: 20th September 2004 13:00
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- Location: VLADIKAVKAZ, NORTH OSSETIA, RUSSIA
- Country: Russia
- Reuters ID: LVA1702J47A7W5PIY1IUGJMH18PQ
- Story Text: Vladikavkaz morgue overwhelmed with bodies of school siege dead;
coffins prepared for burials.
The sound of people weeping who lost their loved ones in the bloody
end to Russia's school siege drifted across a morgue compound in the regional
city of Vladikavkaz on Sunday (September 5) as relatives prepared to bury the
first of 333 people killed.
Hundreds of distraught Ossetians queued outside the overwhelmed morgue
on Sunday (September 5) to look for missing relatives among the lines of
bodies.
Dozens of corpses, their skin the colour of powdered milk, lay outside
the morgue on stretchers. Most were children or women, their naked bodies
covered with black tarpaulin or plastic sheets.
Relatives accompanied by nurses picked their way along row after row of
stretchers, holding handkerchieves or gauze masks to their faces against the
stench.
At coffin maker's in Vladikavkaz hundreds of coffins were being made
for the funerals of the victims of the school siege tragedy.
"I have never seen so many coffins being made. This is a tragedy,
the like of which the world has not seen before," said Soltan Tzhavredov,
who runs the coffins makers.
Many of the victims had been held inside the school gym for two days
without food or water, too frightened to move, with explosives strung from
wires over their heads.
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