Victims of Beslan tragedy to be remembered in Russia

12:15, 3 September 2009

VLADIKAVKAZ. September 3. KAZINFORM A requiem service in memory of the adults and children, who did not survive the seizure of a general school in the North Ossetian town of Beslan by a group of Caucasian and international terrorists precisely five years ago, will be held in the courtyard of Beslan's former school No. 1 Thursday; Kazinform refers to ITAR-TASS.

A bell will be rung at exactly 13:05 and a minute's silence will be called, after which children will release 335 white hot air balloons into the sky.

The Beslan tragedy claimed 335 human lives, including 186 children.

Following the solemn ceremony in the courtyard of the former school, participants in the commemorative events will then move to the memorial cemetery. Names of the victims will be read out to the ticking of the metronome and a minute's silence will be called once again after that.

In Moscow, a requiem service for the people victimized by terrorists in Beslan will be chanted in the Holy Trinity Church at Khoroshovo. It will be led by the Right Reverend Vsevolod Chaplin, the chairman of the synod department for relations between the Church and society; Kazinform cites ITAR-TASS.

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