Ten of the 20 hostage-takers who set off a major crisis in North Ossetia on Wednesday and were killed by Russian troops on Friday came from Arab countries, a Federal Security Service (FSB) official said. Valery Andreyev, who heads the North Ossetian branch of the FSB, also said more than 400 hostages had been released over the past two hours. "Unfortunately, there are fatalities among the hostages. So far, 60 of them have been identified," he said. He said some of the militants were still holding some people hostage inside the school and that Russian special forces were fighting them. "There are fatalities among members of the special forces," Andreyev said.
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