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In Beslan, townspeople crowded around the coffins of children, parents, grandparents ar the 120 burials scheduled in the town cemetery and adj< Trying to cope Russia mourns victims of school siege By Burt Herman THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ESLAN, Russia — Funeral processions filled the rainy streets of this southern Rus sian city Monday, carrying coffins large and small, as townspeople buried scores of vic tims of a carefully planned school siege that prosecutors linked to a Chechen rebel leader. Desperate families searched for those still missing from the siege at School No. 1, while others buried 120 victims during the first of two days of national mourning across Russia, which has seen more than 400 people killed in vio lence linked to terrorism in the past two weeks. Reports emerged that the attackers ap parently planned the school seizure months ago, sneaking weapons into the building in advance. There also were signs that some of the militants did not know they were to take children hostage and may have been killed by their comrades when they objected. - State-television also sharply criticized gov ernment officials for understating the scope of the crisis, in which hundreds of hostages were held for 62 hours by heavily armed militants who reportedly demanded the withdrawal of Russian troops from Chechnya. On Monday, wailing women stroked the coffins or kissed wooden stakes that bore the names of victims until tombstones could be put in place in Beslan’s cemetery. Passing trains sounded their horns in respect. A fuzzy, pink rabbit adorned one of the caskets. Police erected heavy security cordons on the road leading to the cemetery before a visit by a high-level government delegation including Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov, the president of North Ossetia, the speaker of the Russian parliament and the prosecutor-general. Among the first buried were Zinaida Kudzi- yeva, 42, and her 10-year-old daughter, Madina Tomayeva. Relatives said they tried to flee when the first explosions went off and were caught in firing between militants and Russian forces. “They couldn’t run away. They didn't have time,†said Irakly Khosulev, a relative from nearby Vladikavkaz. “Someone should answer for this.†A prosecutor said the militants belonged to a group led by radical Chechen rebel Shamil Basayev. A man identified by authorities as a detained hostage-taker said on state TV that he was told that Basayev and separatist former Chechen President Aslan Maskhadov were behind the attack. Mikhail Lapotnikov, a senior investigator in the North Caucasus prosecutors’ office, said on Channel One television that investigators have established the assailants were “the core of Ba- sayev's band†and had taken part in a June attack also blamed on Basayev — targeting police and security officials in neighboring Ingushetia. The detainee, identified by a lawyer as Nur-Pashi Kulayey, said on both state-run channelsTfRat he and other members of the group were told the goal of the raid was “to unleash a war on the whole of the Caucasus†— the same thing President Vladimir Putin said was the attackers’ aim. Criticism of the government response to the tragedy was mounting, with state tele vision chiding officials for understating the magnitude of the crisis, for their slowness to admit that previous fecent attacks were by terrorists and for their apparent paralysis. “At such moments, society needs the truth,†Rossiya television commentator Ser gei Brilyov said Sunday night. Brilyov criticized generals who “can’t bring themselves to act until the president throws ideas to them.†On Saturday, Putin had criti cized Russia’s law enforcement agencies for failing to rise to the challenge of terrorism. kh Two politicians — liberal Iri da and nationalist Sergei Glaz; separately for an independent into the hostage crisis, the li agency reported. After the siege ended, Russian news cies cited unidentified security sources a ing that the planners of the raid w to have scouted at least two schoo “Judging by everything, they felt the ter one for their goals was the main bu of School No. 1 with its half-basement nasium annex, where the floor had to placed," the ITAR-Tass news agency q a law-enforcement official as saying. “The bandits were school a large quantit tion, equipment and e> of planks, cement and enough to defend the s riod,†the official said. 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