VLADIKAVKAZ. April 27 (Interfax-AVN) - Students and employees of School No. 6 in the North Ossetian town of Beslan have been evacuated after an object resembling an explosive device was found outside the school's building early Wednesday morning, a local law enforcement source told Interfax.
Houses near the school were evacuated as well.
The object is a "plastic bottle wrapped in tape and some wires," the source said.
Experts and sappers are working at the scene.