One Beslan hostage-taker identified to be Muscovite

Moscow/Agency Caucasus – Someone believed to be among the group of people who had taken schoolchildren and adults hostage in the

Beslan
School

in 2004 was eventually identified.

 

Aleksandr Torshin, Vice President of the Council of Russian Federation, also Head of the Parliamentary Committee of Investigation into the Beslan School Hostage Crisis, said that his team of investigators managed to identify one of the eight hostage-takers who had been killed during the military operation but who could not have been identified so far. Torshin said that the identified body belonged to someone who had lived in Moscow . Torshin declined to reveal further details about the identification; however, he said that the identified hostage-taker was the son of a good family. Torshin said that his team of investigators would carry on their efforts to identify the rest seven hostage-takers as well.    

A group of militants took hostage on September 1, 2004, a total of 1128 people in the Beslan School Number One, killing 186 children and 145 adults, and leaving 728 Beslan people and 55 security officers injured. Security forces then said that they shot down 31 militants and caught one of them alive. KU/ÖZ/FT