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Beslan mother's impossible choice

Aneta was caught up in the Beslan school siege in 2004. She was taking her nine-year-old daughter Alana to school for the first day of the new term and also had her one-year-old baby Milena with her. Soon Aneta was forced to make an agonising choice between them, a choice which still haunts her now. Through an interpreter Aneta told Matthew Bannister how the day unfolded.

(Photo: Soldiers and security forces in front of the burning school in Beslan, North Ossetia, 3 September, 2004. Credit: Yuri Tutov/AFP/Getty Images)

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17 minutes