Every year, as the anniversary of the 2004 terrorist attack on a Russian school in Beslan nears, photographers descend on the small town to document the lingering effects of the hostage crisis in which 331 people - 186 of them students - were killed. The surviving children, many of whom were injured, are usually photographed looking somber, often inside the school’s ruins.
New York Times: Outgrowing childhood horrors in Beslan (PHOTOS)
People hold a banner on September 3, 2014 and light some of the 334 candles arranged to spell \"Beslan\", during a remembrance of the dead children in St. Petersburg. Chechen guerrillas took more than 1,000 people hostage on September 1, 2004, in a school in Beslan, North Ossetia. The siege lasted three days, leaving 330 people dead, mostly children, following the attack and the storming of the building by Russian special forces.
