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Minute's silence held in Beslan to commemorate siege victims
Sep 3, 2007, 13:48 GMT
Moscow - Thousands of people remembered the bloody end to the Beslan school hostage drama three years ago with a minute's silence Monday in the Russian republic of North Ossetia.
Children released white balloons in memory of the 334 people killed during the siege.
'The third of September remains for us a sad date,' Susanna Dudiyeva, head of the Mothers of Beslan committee, told the Interfax news agency.
On September 1, 2004 Chechen terrorists seized the school, taking hostage 1,100 pupils, teachers and parents. Two days later the siege was brought to a bloody end by Russian security forces.
More than half of the dead were children.
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