多维追击：俄一中学400人遭武装分子劫持

[Wanderer]

多维追击：俄一中学400人遭武装分子劫持

多维社记者综合报导／当地时间9月1日早晨8时，大约17名身份不明的武装分子闯入俄罗斯北奥塞梯共和国贝斯兰市的一所中学并劫持人质。最新消息说，共有400人被武装分子扣押，其中有200名儿童。报导说，劫持人质的武装分子中有男有女，他们身上都绑着炸药。

俄罗斯新闻网消息说，俄罗斯北奥塞梯共和国总统亚历山大-德扎索霍夫、政府和强力机构领导人已经位于出事现场。据悉，目前别斯兰市所有学校和市场都已经关闭。

事件发生在俄罗斯南部的北奥塞梯(Ossetia)省的一栋建筑物，枪手在攻击学校之后，与警方发生枪战，至少有一人死亡。国际传真社报导，枪手同时可能也攻击了另一所学校，但其他单位并未加以证实。俄罗斯总统普京在当地的特使雅科夫勒夫(VladimirYakovlev)表示，「事发后警方立即被召至现场，目前并不清楚有多少学童及家长被挟持。」

BBC引述俄罗斯官员说，17名武装男女闯进北奥塞梯别斯兰市的这所学校。部分攻击者穿上了炸药带。这是假期之后上课的第一天，相信当时至少有200名学生在学校，可能还有一些家长。武装分子与警方爆发了枪战。在别斯兰现场的保安官员正在试图与武装分子谈判。

俄罗斯文传通讯社引述俄罗斯保安部队的地区发言人说，至少有17名武装分子参与行动。另外有未经证实的报道说，该市有另一所学校也遭受挟持。现在还不清楚武装分子是什么人和有什么目的，但是在此之前两个月，车臣武装反叛曾经对附近的印古什发动猛烈攻击。

俄通社说，武装分子闯入学校校园后，将所有参加开学典礼的学生和家长驱赶到体育馆里。被劫持的几名学生家长接到了孩子用手机打的电话。据称，武装分子向学校教学楼内开枪，教师中有伤亡。而这些武装分子中有男有女，而且他们身上都绑着炸药。

来自北奥塞梯护法机关的灵通人士向国际文传电讯社通报了这一消息。随后，北奥塞梯共和国紧急情况部长鲍里斯．泽戈耶夫予以了证实。泽戈耶夫说，武装分子共有17人，而有目击者则说只有15人。根据目击者提供的消息，大约有200孩子被恐怖分子扣为人质，他们被赶到了学校的体育馆。

另有消息说，武装人员还占据了别斯兰的另一所学校。但是有关方面还没有予以证实。目前，北奥塞梯共和国已经取消了所有学校的开学庆祝活动。根据初步掌握的资料，占据别斯兰第一学校的恐怖分子目前已经与警察交上了火。有消息说，在交火中有一名恐怖分子被打死。

目前还不清楚武装分子占据学校的动机。泽戈耶夫说，强力部门的代表已经前往事发地点，他们将同武装分子展开谈判。俄罗斯总统驻南部联邦区全权代表弗拉基米尔．雅科夫列夫也证实了别斯兰第一学校被占领的消息。他说：“警察已经与匪徒交上了火，更多的内务部队和警察正向学校方向集结。”

俄罗斯总统普京驻南部地区特使的发言人通过电话告诉新闻记者称：“可能有400人被劫持，包括学生和教师。”俄通社-塔斯社称，这些武装分子拒绝与当局进行谈判。

武装分子威胁说，如果俄军方试图冲进他们占据的学校大楼，他们就将炸毁这座建筑。俄通社-塔斯社援引目击者的话说，该校的体育馆已经被埋上了地雷。据悉，武装分子将人质带向窗口，为了不让警察向楼内射击。同时，武装分子开枪打死了几名老师。

别斯兰市政府官员表示，被扣押的人质中有几个学生通过手机给他们的父母打电话称，武装分子打死了数名人质。与此同时，俄北奥塞梯内务部作战司令部官员称，几名学生成功从被占领的大楼中逃出。

北奥塞梯位于俄罗斯南部地区，与俄罗斯的车臣共和国毗连。武装分子与当地警察发生了激烈交火。而且有消息称，这群武装分子可能还袭击了另一所学校。

http://www1.chinesenewsnet.com/gb/MainNews/Topics/2004_9_1_3_45_34_235.html

 

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http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/09/01/russia.school/index.html

Deaths in Russia school attack
Wednesday, September 1, 2004 Posted: 12:29 PM EDT (1629 GMT)

A girl was seen running from the school, holding the hand of a soldier.

MOSCOW, Russia (CNN) -- Four people were killed as armed attackers stormed a school in southern Russia and took at least 100 people hostage, Russian media said.

Children, parents and teachers were herded into the school as they gathered for a ceremony marking the first day of class. The attackers issued demands to Russian authorities and threatened to kill the children.

The Russian state news agency RIA Novosti said four people were killed and nine others wounded in the attack, which took place at about 9 a.m. (1 a.m. ET).

Interfax news agency said there was shooting at the time of the attack as well as afterward.

Earlier reports indicated as many as nine people may have been killed and 11 wounded, but officials revised the numbers without explanation.

Russia's defense minister, Sergei Ivanov, said the hostage-taking and other recent attacks marked a declaration of war against Russia.

"It is a different kind of war, where you cannot see your enemy and where there is no front line, but nonetheless this is an entirely real threat," Ivanov told reporters. "Russia is not the only country that faces this new threat."

At least 15 armed attackers rushed the school in the town of Beslan in North Ossetia, Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) said. Some were reportedly wearing explosives belts used in suicide bombings.

There were several conflicting reports. According to one, the attackers released at least 12 children; but according to another, Russian officials denied the release and said 14 children had hid in a boiler room during the attack and later escaped.

Interfax reported at least 100 people inside the school with the hostage-takers; Russian state television, however, said the number was as high as 300.

Interfax said the hostage-takers had threatened to kill 50 children for each of their number killed by Russian forces and 20 for each wounded.

Quoting emergency officials, Interfax reported that half of the hostages were children. The students in the primary school range in age from 7 to 17.

The hostage-takers reportedly were demanding the release of more than two dozen prisoners picked up during a raid on Chechens in southern Russia in June and that Russia withdraw all of its forces from Chechnya.

The attackers also have reportedly passed on their cell phone numbers and a note with names of people they are prepared to hold talks with, including the leaders of the regions of Ossetia and Ingushetia as well as a doctor who was involved in negotiations with hostage-takers who seized a Moscow theater in 2002.

Interfax said the doctor was on his way to Beslan.

Video of the scene from Russian television showed Russian forces stationed near the school, some of them behind a tank, as the sound of gunfire could be heard.

A young girl and an older woman ran into the camera's view and were led to safety by the armed forces.

Beslan is located 19 miles (30 km) north of Vladikavkaz in southern Russia, which borders the troubled Russian republic of Chechnya.

Russia said the U.N. Security Council will meet at 5 p.m. ET Wednesday to discuss "terrorist acts." A spokesman for the Russian Mission to the United Nations told CNN the council will meet in consultations first and then decide what action is to be taken.

The seizure of the school comes a day after a female suicide bomber killed nine people and herself and wounded 51 others when she detonated a bomb outside a subway station in northeastern Moscow. (Full story)

Authorities did not immediately say if the female bomber was Chechen.

The bombing marked the second major terrorist attack on Russia in a week, following near-simultaneous attacks on two Russian airliners by what authorities believe were two Chechen women suicide bombers. Eighty-nine people died in the crashes on August 24. (Full story)

For the second time in a week, Russian President Vladimir Putin interrupted his working holiday in the Black Sea resort of Sochi and returned to Moscow.

In an interview with CNN sister network CNN Turk, Putin on Wednesday linked the country's recent terror attacks to Chechen rebels and al Qaeda.

"Two civilian planes were crashed by terrorist gangs that had links to the al Qaeda," Putin said from the Black Sea resort city of Sochi.

"Separatists in northern Caucasus are acting not in line with the Chechen people, but for their own filthy interests. They have links with international terrorism."

Authorities have said traces of the explosive hexogen were found in the wreckage of both planes.

Hexogen, when mixed with nitroglycerin, forms a plastic explosive similar to C4 and has been used by Chechen rebels in attacks on Russian soil in the past.

Chechen rebels -- who refused to take part in Chechen elections held Sunday and vowed to take their fight to Russian soil -- have denied responsibility.

But many Russian politicians are already linking them to Tuesday's suicide bombing, calling it revenge for the elections in which a Kremlin-backed candidate won the presidency.

Russian troops have battled separatist guerrillas in Chechnya since 1994.

Female Chechen suicide bombers are known in Russia as "black widows." (Full story)

In October 2002, about 50 Chechen rebels seized a Moscow theater and took about 800 hostages.

After a three-day siege, Russian forces stormed the building using gas, killing most of the rebels and 120 hostages. (Timeline of attacks)

Sajjan Gohel, Director of International Security at the Asia Pacific Foundation, told CNN that Wednesday's hostage-taking was a "major escalation" by militants.

"It seems that the militants are raising the stakes substantially. The Chechen militants' strategy is no longer just to engage Russian troops in Chechnya but to take it into Russia itself," he said.

"They have become very successful in that. They have been able to entrench themselves in Russia."

 

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Do whatever you want. Once you touch our children, that is it...
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If I had any sympathy for Muslim movement (self-liberating or self-waking?), that now has entirely and utterly vaporized. I think this is a "religion of muderers." As clear as that. Cold blood mass murder!

People say there are bad apples in every religion. True! But I have NOT seen any thing like this one. Forget about middle-east, looking at Africa, Yugoslavia and Russia and China. They are not one or two bad apples that went astray. They are more like entire legion or generation that is brain-washed by that god-book to kill, to wipeout and to murder until they get their way.

I think China or Canada should never give any freedom to this religion that OPENLY habours violance like some European countries did. Keep them in the jail and wipe them out like roaches.

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