Off Topic: Prayers for the families in Russia

[Claire]

A friend said she heard that for the children released, they made the parents in the building choose which child they would take with them. There is a lot of healing needed here.

 

http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/09/04...hool/index.html

 

North Ossetia government spokesman Lev Dzugayev told CNN that 323 hostages, including 156 children, died in the siege in the southern town of Beslan.

 

n addition, 26 hostage-takers -- including 10 people from Arab countries -- and at least 10 Russian special forces were killed. The two-day standoff ended Friday after Russian forces stormed the school amid explosions and intense gunfire.

 

More than 700 people were wounded, officials said. Dzugayev said Saturday evening that 448 people were still in hospitals in the region, including 248 children. Among the total hospitalized, 69 were in serious condition.

 

Dzugayev said most of those who died were killed when a bomb exploded in the school gymnasium where hostages were being held, collapsing the roof and starting a fire.

[Guest Guest]

Only monsters can kill kids which is why I don't tell my children that monsters don't exist. It's a shame but in some parts of the world those monsters are considered heros.