BESLAN. Sept 3 (Interfax-AVN) - Most of the children taken hostage in Beslan are alive, according to sources in the North Ossetian Interior Ministry.
Injuries were suffered by children in that group which had run out of the school building and came under terrorist fire. The children who remained in the school building mostly did not suffer.
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