Airplane brings 5 Beslan victims to Moscow

ITAR-TASS News Agency  
September 11, 2004 Saturday

MOSCOW

An airplane of the Emergencies Ministry brought five Beslan victims to
Moscow. The transport airplane Il-76 landed in the airport Domodedovo
at 17.05 Moscow time on Saturday, a spokesman for the information
department of the Emergencies Ministry told Itar-Tass. Ambulances
brought former hostages to hospitals from the airport. There are adults
and children among those brought by this special flight to Moscow.

At present 109 people are undergoing treatment in Moscow hospitals.
Humanitarian aid from all around the world is coming to Beslan
every day, he emphasized. As much as 40 tonnes of medicines,
foodstuffs and clothes from Kyrgyzstan were supplied to the city on
Saturday. Airplanes from Ukraine and Poland are expected, a source
in the North Ossetian Emergencies Ministry told Itar-Tass.

After the tragic events in Beslan more than 200 tonnes of humanitarian
aid were delivered from Moscow, St. Petersburg, Mineralnye Vody,
Italy, the United States, France, Norway, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Greece,
Austria, Germany, Bulgaria, Poland, Finaland and Kyrgyzstan. “These
are medicines, expensive medical equipment, bandages, syringes,
mobile medical stations, donor blood and ambulances,” he pointed out.