The act of stilling the community is a survival strategy.
They cite the use of heavy weapons, such as tanks and Shmel rocket flamethrowers.
The crew of Rustavi 2 was arrested; the Georgian Minister of Health said that the correspondent Nana Lezhava, who had been kept for five days in the Russian pre-trial detention centers, had been poisoned with dangerous like Politkovskaya, Lezhava had passed out after being given a cup of tea.
Many of the surviving hostages and eyewitnesses claim there were many more captors, some of whom may have escaped.
Because of the conditions in the gym, when the explosion and gun battle began on the third day, many of the surviving children were so fatigued that they were barely able to flee from the carnage.
His family asserted that his interest in joining the Chechen militant movement was incited when Torshkhoyev witnessed five of his close friends being killed by Russian security forces during the same raid.