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E-mailProsecutors charge three police officers for negligence in school seizure
More than 330 hostages died when the Sept. 1-3 seizure of the school by heavily armed attackers ended in a burst of explosions and gunfire.
The charges were filed against two police officers in the republic of North Ossetia, where Beslan is located, and another officer in the neighboring province of Ingushetia, the prosecutor general's office in southern Russia said in a statement.
It said that the police chiefs of the Pravoberezhny district of North Ossetia and the Malgobek region of Ingushetia will be charged later after being released from hospital.
Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev has claimed responsibility for the school hostage-taking and other recent terror attacks in Russia.
The Russian parliament has set up a panel to investigate the school seizure and determine who is responsible for letting more than 30 attackers sneak through tense police cordons near Chechnya and bring a large arsenal of weapons and explosives into the school.
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