Russian Hostage Crisis

[Coventrysucks]

Is anyone else following this?
There has been live coverage here pretty much all day after it all kicked off.

Apparently a few children tried to escape, the terrorists shot at them, and the Russian armed forces decided to take action, fearing that the terrorists would start a wholesale slaughter.

The terrorist then set off a mine/bomb in the gymnasium, where most of the hostages were reported to be.

A very chaotic few hours later-
(GMT)
0905: Explosions and gunfire heard. Soldiers run to building
0930: School roof said to have collapsed
0958: Special forces enter school
1115: All hostages reported out of school
1125: Security forces attack house where some rebels thought to be hiding - reports
1322: More than 400 people injured, officials say (219 children)
1330: Security services say their assault on school was not planned
1345: More than 100 bodies found in school gym - Interfax
1407: 10 hostage-takers killed in shoot-outs - Interfax

Latest reports say that 3 militants are barricaded in the school basement, possibly including the militant leader.

The White House has stated that the hostage taking was a "barbaric act" and they "Stand by Russia".

Just goes to show that Terrorism ≠ Al Qaida

[Delmaster]

Yes, seen it on TV. There was a livecam.
Terrible..... those children won't forget this ever.

How can those people think with actions like this they could do something usefull to the russia-chechenia conflict which goes for more than 300 years now?

[Mustang]

there were like 3 channels here on normal TV covering it all morning with live cams on the action.

terrible what some people do :SS

[Tuscan666]

What a wounderful world we live in!

Last time i checked it was 3 dead wow news in russia always seems to get worse as the day goes on.

[Renesis]

and it gets worse:

http://www.boston.com/dailynews/247/...hool_10:.shtml

[r1ckst4]

may the victims who were killed rest in peace...

[Rijoh]

I just heard on radio that explosive went off... 100 hostages died....

[UK CARS]

Shouldnt there of been a plan for action to be taken in the night...surely they should have known they carnt wait for ever????

[Matra et Alpine]

wow news in russia always seems to get worse as the day goes on.

Interestingly their was an ex-SAS guy discussing the mornind and repeated that in the UK there woudl have been NO camera, NO press, their woudl be a minimum 1 mile exclusion and it policed by special forces with order to shoot anyone not a hostage.

So in the UK at least, you'd have had NO news except for official channels.

Seeing it 'live' like this is unusual and is bound to create speculation and reporting in dribs and drabs.

Condolences go to the victims and wishes for a peaceful conclusion of the Chechyan 'situation'

[Tuscan666]

Interestingthat was matra!

Did u hear that the gunmen soaked the hostages cloths in water and they had to suck the water out or summit lol...some weirdc rap u hear on news....

[Hell_Unleashed]

I been following it for a while... its all f**ked up man... My condolences to all the innocent victims involved as well... I definitely don't take it for granted how lucky I am...

[Mustang]

Did anyone see the news report,

aparently when the russian soldiers raided the building and blew down one of the walls so that hostages could escape, it also colapesed part of the roof. the thing is that the roof was now on fire and had about 18 bombs strapped to it, when that landed there were loads of people trapped who burnt to death.

so far there are supposed to be about 650 in hspital and 15 dead

[Tuscan666]

i heard the dead was in the 100's

[SlickHolden]

What place is more unsafe ?? Iraq or a hostage in Russian
They have got some huge problems with the way the handle things in these situations
Last news i herd was they seen about 100 chared bodys in there

[Doctor_Gonzo]

latest news: more than 100 peoples died, 556 are in hospitals.

Last 2 weeks there were 5 terrorist actions in my country: 2 explodes, 2 planes were destroyed by terrorists and this school... Every day people think about death. It can get us everywhere.. Nobody wants to die. But we can't stop this war. I have no other comments about this. It's terrible.