The siege through journalists’ eyes
15 years after a horrific terrorist attack in Beslan, ‘Meduza’ asks reporters on the ground what they remember Oleg Nikishin / Getty ImagesA soldier provides covering fire for volunteers entering the schoolhouse after the assault on the building On September 1, 2004, terrorists seized a grade school in Beslan, capturing 1,128 children, parents, and staff. For the next two and a half days, the assailants mined the building and waited.