Russian Independent Media Archive

Dina Kargieva at her daughter's grave Today marks the 20th anniversary of the storming of school No. 1 in Beslan. On September 1, 2004, terrorists took more than 1,200 people hostage at a school. Two days later, during the storming of the school by special forces, 334 people died on the spot or later died from injuries, 186 of them were children. Photojournalist Dmitry Belyakov worked in Beslan in September 2004 during the seizure of school No. 1.