RUSSIA: BESLAN PREPARES FOR MORE BURIALS OF SIEGE VICTIMS AS SEARCH CONTINUES FOR THOSE STILL MISSING IN SCHOOL SIEGE TRAGEDY

Record ID: 647375

  • Title: RUSSIA: BESLAN PREPARES FOR MORE BURIALS OF SIEGE VICTIMS AS SEARCH CONTINUES FOR THOSE STILL MISSING IN SCHOOL SIEGE TRAGEDY
  • Date: 7th September 2004
  • Summary: (W3) VALDIKAVKAZ, NORTH OSSETIA, RUSSIA (SEPTEMBER 7, 2004) (REUTERS) 1. BLOOD DONATION CENTRE EXTERIOR 0.07 2. VARIOUS OF YOUNG WOMEN LOOKING AT PHOTOS OF MISSING, UNACCOUNTED CHILDREN 0.11 3. (SOUNDBITE) (Russian) A LOCAL GIRL, MARINA, SAYING: "We all knew someone. I'm looking for my cousin. I can't find her. We all had relatives or at least knew someone." 0.25 4. VARIOUS OF PHOTOS OF MISSING PEOPLE (2 SHOTS) 0.34 5. VARIOUS OF PEOPLE ENTERING THE BUILDING AND QUEUING TO DONATE BLOOD, HOLDING THEIR PASSPORTS AS IDENTIFICATION (4 SHOTS) 0.56 6. (SOUNDBITE) (Russian) ASLANBEK DASKAYEV SAYING: "I am Ossetian. These are my people. Yesterday we came here with my friends. They all donated blood, but I was late. I was at the funerals. I must do it today." 1.08 7. PEOPLE WAITING 1.12 8. (SOUNDBITE) (Russian) KAZBEK TEBIYEV, CHIEF DOCTOR OF BLOOD DONATION CENTRE, SAYING: "We have enough blood supplies at the moment. All our fridges are full. The blood we have received is being processed. We continue to receive blood donations but now it's more planned and as we need it." 1.31 9. TEBIYEV OPENING FRIDGES, SHOWING BLOOD DONATIONS 1.42 (W3) BESLAN, NORTH OSSETIA, RUSSIA (SEPTEMBER 7, 2004) (REUTERS) 10. SCHOOL GYM/ TOP VIEW OF TWO WINDOWS/ FLOWERS LAID 1.47 11. VARIOUS OF PEOPLE INSIDE RUINS OF SCHOOL GYM (2 SHOTS) 1.56 12. PAN/SV: RUINS/ FLOWERS LAID (2 SHOTS) 2.09 13. SCHOOL CORRIDOR 2.15 14. RUINS OF CLASSROOM 2.19 15. GV: CEMETERY/ FRESH GRAVES 2.25 16. PEOPLE AT CEMETERY 2.40 17. WOMAN CRYING BY GRAVE 2.49 18. VARIOUS OF NEW GRAVES BEING DUG (2 SHOTS) 3.05 19. WS: CEMETERY 3.09 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 22nd September 2004 13:00
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  • Location: VALDIKAVKAZ AND BESLAN, NORTH OSSETIA, RUSSIA
  • Country: Russia
  • Reuters ID: LVA2276XHXSRXEJ0A8LVIUWXYTHA
  • Story Text: Beslan prepares for more burials of siege victims.

    Search continues for those still missing in the
    Beslan school siege tragedy.


    The southern Russian town of Beslan on Tuesday (September 7) will bury
    more of the 335 people, half of them children, killed during a chaotic
    operation to free them from captors holding them hostage at a local school.

    The ruins of School No.1, where more than 1,000 hostages were held for 53
    hours, has turned into a memorial, where funeral processions stop on their way
    to a new cemetery for the victims and where people come to lay flowers.

    Some 207 other bodies are still to be identified. Some reports say there
    are more than 200 missing, though officials say the number refers to those
    unidentified and does not suggest there will be a big increase in the death
    toll.

    In Vladikavkaz, the North Ossetian capital, some people continued their
    search for the missing loved ones.

    "We all knew someone. I'm looking for my cousin. I can't find her. We all
    had relatives or at least knew someone," said a Beslan resident Marina, who had
    come to Vladikavkaz to continue her search.

    Others in the North Ossetian capital prayed for the dead or queued to
    donate blood for the hundreds injured in the school storming.

    "I am Ossetian. These are my people. Yesterday, we came here with my
    friends. They all donated blood, but I was late. I was at the funerals. I must
    do it today," said Aslanbek Daskayev.

    In Moscow, at least 100,000 people are expected to attend a rally on
    Tuesday to denounce terrorism, bolstering President Vladimir Putin against
    critics over last week's hostage tragedy.



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