2 officers charged in Beslan crisis
From Times Wire Reports
A court in southern Russia charged two police officers with negligence in connection with the 2004 Beslan school siege in which 331 people were killed.
The two officers headed a police department in a district of Ingushetia, the court said in a statement. Mukhazhir Yevloyev and his deputy, Akhmed Kotiyev, allegedly failed to prevent militants from setting up a camp in the republic of Ingushetia, which borders the region of North Ossetia where Beslan is located.
The two pleaded innocent, the court said.
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