TV parades suspected school hostage-taker
Russian state television yesterday paraded what officials said was the only suspected hostage-taker still alive of the gang who held 1,000 children and adults in a school in southern Russia for three days.
Channel One showed a man who looked like he was from the Caucasus, with a haggard face and his arms handcuffed high behind his back, flanked by two masked men in camouflage.
His chin and cheeks, visible under stubble, were whiter than the rest of his face, which proved according to the television channel that he had shaved off his beard just before the hostage raid to make it easier to flee afterwards.
For all latest news, follow The Daily Star's Google News channel. The suspect, now in the hands of the intelligence services and whose name and nationality were not released, was firing with an automatic weapon and hiding behind children at the moment of his capture, according to Channel One.
"Did you fire on the hostages?" one of the military asked him.
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