Beslan school siege

When

1 Sep 2004

Kind

Event

Coordinates

43.18° N, 44.54° E

Placed at the coordinates of the event it links, Beslan school siege.

Chechen rebels take 1,128 hostages, mostly children, at a school in Beslan, Russia. Russian security forces eventually storm the building, resulting in more than 330 people being killed.

2004 Russian hostage crisis and massacre

The Beslan school siege, also referred to as the Beslan terror attack, the Beslan tragedy, or the Beslan massacre, was an Islamic terrorist attack that occurred from 1 September 2004 to 3 September 2004 in Beslan, North Ossetia, Russia. It lasted three days, and involved the imprisonment of more than 1,100 people as hostages, including 777 children.

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• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributorsCreative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Turkish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Beslan Katliamı: Çeçen isyancılar, Rusya'nın Beslan kentindeki bir okulda çoğu çocuk 1.128 kişiyi rehin aldı”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Russische Spezialeinheiten erstürmen die Schule, um die Geiseln zu befreien; ca. 330–400 Menschen kommen dabei ums Leben (siehe Geiselnahme von Beslan)”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “prise en otage d'un millier d'enfants dans une école de Beslan en Haute-Ossétie par 35 combattants tchétchènes”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “боевики захватили здание школы в городе Беслан (Северная Осетия, Россия)”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “en Beslán (Osetia del Norte), 60 km al norte de la frontera entre Rusia y Georgia, un grupo de terroristas islámicos chechenos toman la escuela de Beslán”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Chinese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “别斯兰人质危机”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Japanese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “ロシア北オセチア共和国でベスラン学校占拠事件起こる（ - 3日）。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page