September 07, 2004
Beslan video
Russia's NTV has aired captured video footage taken inside the Beslan school.
A Russian television network showed footage from inside the school raided by militants last week depicting hooded attackers in a gymnasium crowded with hostages and strung up with explosives attached to wires.The footage, which NTV television said was from a videotape recorded by the assailants, showed what appeared to be hundreds of hostages crowded around the walls of the cramped room, fanning themselves in the heat.
Football-sized bundles that looked like explosives were attacked to wires and strings hanging from a basketball hoop and other objects, and one attacker in camouflage and a black hood stood with one boot on what NTV said was a book rigged with a detonator.
Red streaks on the floor appeared to be from blood, as if someone bleeding had been dragged across the wooden surface.
NTV article and still images here and here (in Russian).
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