Beslan: Putin orders new probe
2005-09-05 15:49
Moscow - Six Russian prosecutors headed to the southern town of Beslan on Monday after President Vladimir Putin ordered an investigation of all the facts in last year's bloody school hostage-taking, in which 331 people died.
The prosecutor-general's office said the group, headed by deputy prosecutor-general Vladimir Kolesnikov, was to meet with survivors and other residents of the town, including representatives of the Beslan Mothers' Committee.
The mothers' committee had been highly critical of the investigation so far, and Putin promised its representatives in a meeting last week that he would try to deal with their grievances.
- AP