Sounds good to me... Sounds appropriate to me...
Shortly after the situation erupted at the scene of the hostage crisis in the North Ossetian town of Beslan, the area around the school was described as chaotic, with one suspected terrorist attacked by the crowd. A reporter with Britain's Sky News described how vigilantes attacked one of the suspected rebels. She said special forces brought out a man on a stretcher and the crowd moved as one and began to attack him. The soldiers made a token effort to protect him but they have no control, the reporter said.
"Here, youse! Stop that!... Ummm... Is it lunch? Damn! I'll be back in, uhhh... 10 minutes."
"Make it 20!"
"Hokay." |
The chaos is thought to have assisted up to 13 of the hostage-takers to flee the school and hole up in a residential building nearby.
| Hopefully soon to be a former residential building... |
A correspondent from the BBC who is at the scene also called the situation in the streets in the aftermath of the storming as "pandemonium".
| What the hell'd you expect? |
Television pictures showed scores of bloodied children in a state of undress milling around armored personnel carriers as soldiers provided water and first aid. The sound of gunfire could be heard in the background. A number of the released hostages have reportedly avoided going to hospital, Gazeta.Ru says, further confusing any attempt at a head count by authorities. |