The Beslan school siege Besieging ( also referred to as the Beslan school hostage crisis Catastrophe or Beslan massacre Killing ) started Process_start on 1 September 2004 , lasted Process_end three days , involved Cause_to_be_included the illegal Legality imprisonment Prison of over 1,100 people as hostages ( including 777 children ) , and ended Process_end with the deaths Death of at least 334 people .

The Beslan school siege Besieging ( also referred to as the Beslan school hostage crisis Catastrophe or Beslan massacre Killing ) started Process_start on 1 September 2004 , lasted Process_end three days , involved Cause_to_be_included the illegal Legality imprisonment Prison of over 1,100 people as hostages ( including 777 children ) , and ended Process_end with the deaths Death of at least 334 people .

The Beslan school siege Besieging ( also referred to as the Beslan school hostage crisis Catastrophe or Beslan massacre Killing ) started Process_start on 1 September 2004 , lasted Process_end three days , involved Cause_to_be_included the illegal Legality imprisonment Prison of over 1,100 people as hostages ( including 777 children ) , and ended Process_end with the deaths Death of at least 334 people .

The crisis Catastrophe began Process_start when a group of armed Islamic militants , mostly Ingush and Chechen , occupied Control School Number One ( SNO ) in the town of Beslan , North Ossetia ( an autonomous republic in the North Caucasus region of the Russian Federation ) on 1 September 2004 .

Questions about the Russian government 's management of the crisis Catastrophe have also persisted Coming_to_be , including allegations of disinformation and censorship in news media , whether the journalists who were present at Beslan were allowed Preventing_or_letting to freely report Reporting on the crisis Catastrophe , the nature and content of negotiations Communication with the terrorists , allocation Deciding of responsibility for the eventual outcome , and perceptions that excessive force was used Using .