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Beslan children and parents on healing trip to Israel
Eighteen children who were injured and held hostage during the Beslan siege two months ago are in the middle of a three week visit to Israel to heal wounds - both physical and psychological ones. The children, along with their parents, were invited to Israel by the mayor of the coastal city of Ashkelon. Various Israeli volunteer organizations and companies contributed to make the trip possible. School No. 1 in Beslan, a Caucasus town near Chechnya, became the scene of a bloodbath in early September after being seized by armed separatists. More than 1,000 parents, teachers and children were held captive in the school's gymnasium, and more than 330 people, half of them children, died September 3 in the world's worst hostage disaster when a two-day siege by Russian security forces ended in bomb blasts and shooting. Posted by: Mark Espinola 2004-11-15 |
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