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The death toll in the school siege drama in the city of Beslan, North Ossetia, has exceeded 150
704 people have been hospitalised, including 259 children. Doctors say that most of them have gunshot wounds in the back
It took more than 10 hours to fully suppress the terrorists. According to the crisis management committee, eight terrorists were killed and three detained. Four escaped.
There is also information that the mass hostage taking was funded by one of the Wahhabism ideologists, Abu Omar al-Seif, al-Qaeda's liaison in Chechnya and foreign fund manager.
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