RIA News". According to him, it cost the lives of several department officers.

The Romanian band Spitalul De Urgenta, which played in Moscow in February, returns to Russia again. The style of "Ambulance" (this is how the band's name is translated) is Balkan or even purely Romanian melodies, framed by sometimes light, sometimes heavy rock. The accordion helps them not to go too far from their roots, adding national notes to the cosmopolitan sound of the guitars. For the second visit, Spitalul De Urgenta planned five concerts in the capital and two away.

The number of victims of the terrorist attack in Beslan exceeded 390 people. This was reported on the website of the online publication Gazeta.Ru with reference to the Ministry of Health of North Ossetia . Thus, 250 dead were rescued from the school immediately after the end of the shootout. Then they began clearing out the rubble and gradually extracted another 140 bodies from under the collapsed roof of the gym.

Two Il-76 planes of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations landed in Beslan, RIA Novosti reports . There are six ambulances, 18 doctors and six drivers on board the planes, the Zashchita Center for Disaster Medicine reported. The decision to deliver to Moscow those injured as a result of the hostage taking in Beslan will be made directly on the spot after the report of doctors, a representative of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations said.

As the Associated Press notes, such terrorist attacks are typical of Iraqi guerrillas. The last such explosion occurred on August 27, when a car laden with explosives exploded in Mosul as a American military column.

20 people were shot by militants in a Beslan school in the first two days after the capture, Interfax reports . This statement was made by Deputy Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation Sergei Fridinsky, who showed journalists the place of execution. “Here is the room into which hostages were taken and shot from time to time.

The intelligence services suffered heavy losses, Russian President Vladimir Putin said at a meeting in Beslan, RIA Novosti reports. Vladimir Putin said that no military action was planned in Beslan. “We considered all possible options, but we ourselves did not plan a military action. Events developed very quickly and unexpectedly, but the security officers showed particular courage,” he said. Vladimir Putin arrived in Beslan early on Saturday morning.

As of 21:00 on Saturday, 270 of the 330 dead as a result of the capture and release of hostages at a Beslan school have been identified, RIA Novosti reports . An agency source in the North Ossetian prosecutor's office spoke about this. As previously stated by the press secretary of the President of North Ossetia, Lev Dzugaev, the total number of deaths was 156 children. According to Dzugaev, 448 people remain in medical institutions in Vladikavkaz, Beslan and Ardon, 248 of them children.

Soldiers of the unit's engineering battalion neutralized 4 improvised explosive devices planted by terrorists at a school in Beslan, Interfax reports . According to a source at the headquarters of the 58th Army, the explosive devices consisted of plastic bottles, each of which contained 450-500 grams of plastic and 3 kilograms of damaging metal elements - bolts, balls and nuts. Work to neutralize improvised explosive devices will continue on Saturday, the military officer added.

On Sunday, another 20 seriously wounded children who suffered as a result of the seizure of a school in the North Ossetian city of Beslan will be flown from North Ossetia to Moscow, RIA Novosti reports . The Ministry of Emergency Situations evacuated the first six children, who were in extremely serious condition. RIA Novosti, some of the children brought to Moscow have already undergone the necessary operations.

Twenty-seven terrorists were killed in Beslan, RIA Novosti reports , citing the operational headquarters. Eight terrorists were killed on the school grounds, and the rest were killed in its vicinity while trying to escape, the headquarters reported. Earlier, the head of the FSB Directorate for North Ossetia, Valery Andreev, said that among the killed militants there were ten Arabs. It was also reported that among the killed militants there was one black man.

Late on Friday evening, the first Il-76 plane of the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry took off from Moscow to Beslan with ambulances and medical equipment on board, RIA Novosti reports . As the Information Directorate of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations said, the first plane took off at 23:07 Moscow time. The second plane took off at 12:15 a.m. Saturday. On board there are three ambulances and a group of pediatricians.

The European Union has demanded that the Russian authorities account for the large number of casualties resulting from the hostage-taking at a school in the North Ossetian city of Beslan, Reuters reports. A corresponding statement on behalf of the government of the union of 25 European states was made on Friday by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands, Bernard Bot.

At 9:18 and 9:22 two EMERCOM planes with six children from Beslan landed at Moscow Domodedovo airport, RIA Novosti reports . After some time, four schoolchildren were taken to the 9th, one to Morozovskaya and one to the 7th children's hospital. “These are the children with the most severe injuries, but they survived the flight normally,” said Ivan Sakhno, executive director of the All-Russian Center for Disaster Medicine. Patients from North Ossetia are also expected at the 13th city hospital.

The crew of the International Space Station completed their work in outer space ahead of schedule and returned to the station at 1:55 Moscow time, RIA Novosti reports . As the Mission Control Center clarified, flight engineer Michael Fink came on board first, and crew commander Gennady Padalka followed him. Padalka and Fink completely completed all the planned work. They were expected to return to the ISS at 2:45 Moscow time, the agency recalls.