Beslan siege - short version

Beslan siege
At approximately 08-00 local time on Wednesday, September 1, 2004, a group of men and women armed with assault rifles and grenade launchers seized school No.1 in the town of Beslan in North Ossetia.
After a brief shootout, the attackers forced the children and teachers inside the school and announced that they were being held hostage.
1 September
The gunmen call for talks with the presidents of North Ossetia and Ingushetia and renowned doctor Leonid Roshal.
Hostage-takers, numbering between 17 and 40, threaten to kill 50 children for every militant killed.
Nearly 50 children manage to escape. Gunmen set free 15 more.
President Putin breaks off his vacation and returns to Moscow.
Representative of Chechen rebel leader Aslan Maskhadov denies involvement by forces loyal to him.
Russian authorities get in contact with attackers. Gunmen refuse to pass food, water and medicines to the hostages.
2 September
A government source reveals the exact number of hostages for the first time since the crisis, putting the number at 354 (It was not true. All in Beslan know the number of hostages is more than 1000 persons).
Schoolchildren held hostage report by phone that they are coping and that the conditions are “tolerable”.
Captors free several women and young children, the news agencies reported. The number of released hostages varies from six to 26.
3 September
When the gunmen allowed the bodies to be carried out of the school and the emergency officials started to recover them, the attackers blew up their explosives. It was at 13.05. Storming started…