BODIES OF 237 KILLED EXTRACTED FROM UNDER SCHOOL'S DEBRIS

BESLAN, September 4 (RIA Novosti) - According to the data available at 5:00 p.m. (Moscow time), bodies of 237 killed people including 144 children were extracted from under the school's debris in Beslan, the North Ossetian Health Ministry told RIA Novosti.

Currently rescuers of the Emergencies Ministry continue their works. The works will be soon over.

Russian Deputy General Prosecutor for the Southern Federal District Sergei Fridinsky spoke about the brutality of the terrorists, who captured the school in Beslan.

"From time to time the terrorists would take several hostages and shoot them. In the course of two days they would position the hostages against the wall and shoot them for even a small insubordination to their plans," Mr. Fridinsky said on air of Rossia TV-channel.

"Thus, in the course of two days the bandits shot and threw outside 20 hostages," he added.

In the early hours of September 1 a group of terrorists captured a secondary school number 1 in the North Ossetian town of Beslan. For more than two days the bandits kept approximately 1,000 people as hostages.

According to the preliminary information, as a result of the terrorist attack 322 people including 155 children were killed, some 700 were injured. There is still no information about some 130 people.