Reply #27: The school does not seem to have been the real target [View All]

[muriel_volestrangler]

but caught in an attack on Russian officials.

The BBC's Emma Simpson in Moscow says this appears to have been an all-out attack on Nalchik's law enforcement and security services.

A local Interior Ministry source told Itar-Tass that rebels launched a "carefully planned" simultaneous attack on police stations, security forces, military and drugs-control offices and the airport.

"All hell broke loose, and the impression was that there was shooting everywhere," a resident told Reuters news agency.

A school was also caught up in the running gun-battles, as black smoke billowed across the city.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4337100.stm