Children from the Russian town of Beslan went back to school today, two weeks late, after living through the horror of the siege of Middle School No 1. That school was destroyed in the siege’s bloody ending, which claimed the lives of up to 400 people, most of them children. The pupils of School No 1 are not returning to school quite yet - most of them have been sent to rest at sanatoriums in the Black Sea resort of Sochi or other resort towns.
Jeremy Page, Moscow Correspondent of The Times, was at Beslan’s Middle School No 6 this morning to see the children return to school, and a town begin to return to normal.
“The kids were dressed very smartly this morning, as