Children of Beslan (2005)

On September 1 2004 a group of heavily armed rebel extremists stormed into School No 1 in Beslan Russia For three days more than a thousand children and adults were held hostage in a sweltering gymnasium denied food and water and forced to keep their hands over their heads The harrowing siege ended on September 3 with a series of explosions and a hail of gunfire that killed some 350 people half of them children In this film the youngest survivors of Beslan tell their story