RUSSIA: SURGEONS STRUGGLE TO SAVE LIVES OF WOUNDED FROM SCHOOL HOSTAGE ORDEAL IN BESLAN

Record ID: 648137

  • Title: RUSSIA: SURGEONS STRUGGLE TO SAVE LIVES OF WOUNDED FROM SCHOOL HOSTAGE ORDEAL IN BESLAN
  • Date: 3rd September 2004
  • Summary: (W8) BESLAN, REPUBLIC OF NORTH OSSETIA, RUSSIA (SEPTEMBER 03, 2004) 1. PAN: AMBULANCES AND PRIVATE CARS RUSHING WOUNDED TO HOSPITAL 0.04 2. PAN: VIEW OF WOUNDED CHILDREN IN BACK SEAT OF PRIVATE CAR 0.15 3. GUNFIRE GOING OFF NEAR HOSPITAL 0.26 4. MAN HOLDING WOUNDED BOY IN FRONT OF HOSPITAL ENTRANCE AND CALLING OUT FOR SOMEBODY TO DONATE THEIR CAR TO TAKE BOY TO A DIFFERENT LOCATION 0.44 5. PEOPLE LOOKING ON 0.47 6. WOUNDED CHILD PUT ON GURNEY 1.04 7. NURSES AND DOCTORS RUNNING THROUGH CORRIDORS (2 SHOTS) 1.15 8. MEDICAL TEAM WHEELING WOUNDED INTO OPERATION ROOM 1.30 9. VARIOUS: SURGEONS OPERATING ON PATIENT (3 SHOTS) 1.46 10. NURSES WITH WOUNDED / DRIP (3 SHOTS) 1.57 11. CU: WOUNDED 2.02 12. MEDICAL TEAM BRING ADDITIONAL LIGHTS INTO OPERATIING THEATRE 2.08 13. SURGEONS OPERATING (2 SHOTS) 2.17 14. MORE SURGEONS WALKING INTO OPERATING ROOM 2.21 15. MEDICAL TEAM TAKING WOUNDED INTO ELEVATOR 2.29 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 18th September 2004 13:00
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  • Location: BESLAN, REPUBLIC OF NORTH OSSETIA, RUSSIA
  • Country: Russia
  • Reuters ID: LVA2B9FFUUDTLPXLO4RSVDKZMD1D
  • Story Text: Surgeons struggle to save lives of wounded from
    Russian school hostage ordeal.


    Russia's latest hostage crisis ends and the battle
    for dozens - perhaps hundreds - of lives is now being
    played out in the operating rooms of local hospitals.

    Wounded hostages were rushed to field tents and
    hospitals by private cars and ambulance at the end of the
    three day crisis in Beslan, southern Russia, where as many
    as 1,000 hostages might have been held.

    Russian troops stormed a school on Friday, blaming
    Chechen hostage-takers for the bloody shoot-out in which
    more than 200 people died.

    Official details and figures fluctuated amid the
    confusion and carnage in Beslan in the North Ossetia region
    bordering troubled Chechnya, where Moscow has faced a
    decade-old revolt.

    The Emergencies Ministry said 704 people, including 259
    children, were in hospital. Many of the wounded were being
    treated in mobile hospitals set up by authorities.

    Doctors said the number of wounded was far more than
    they had anticipated. They said that the wounded were
    coming mostly with shrapnel injuries, bullet wounds and
    severe burns. The conditions of the wounded are most
    certainly complicated by the fact that they had received
    little if any food or water for the entire period of
    captivity.



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