Russia remembers bloody end to Beslan hostage crisis

Moscow, Sep 3 (DPA) Russians Sunday commemorated the bloody end to the Beslan hostage tragedy two years ago in which 333 people died - a ‘painful wound,’ in the words of President Vladimir Putin.

‘The murder of innocent women and children shook Russia and the entire world,’ he said during a Moscow meeting with Russian Orthodox Church head Patriarch Alexei II.

The suffering of the parents would linger and the whole tragic event was ‘our common pain,’ Putin said.

Hundreds of people poured into the ruins of the school in the small northern Caucasus town, where Chechen (Muslim*) terrorists held more than 1,100 adults and children captive for two days.

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