196 ambulances working in Beslan. The wounded are also taken to the Republic's capital, Vladikavkaz.

mortar fire for the past ten minutes somewhere around

a beautiful teenage boy, leaning on his mama, no shirt on, looks exhausted, the journalists were trying to ask him something

one of the explosions could have been the special forces trying to make some opening in the wall

internal affairs ministry is insisting they were not intending to storm the building and were not preparing for it