Explosion kills child in Beslan

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An explosion has killed one child and injured two others in Beslan, the North Caucasus town bereaved by a 2004 school hostage siege, Russian media say.

A girl aged either eight or nine, according to different reports, was killed while two boys, aged seven and 10, received shrapnel wounds.

Police sources in the North Ossetia region believe the children either stepped on a mine or found a grenade.

Of the 330 people killed in the 2004 hostage siege, 186 were children.

Most are believed to have died when bombs rigged up inside the school gym by the hostage-takers exploded and Russian security forces rushed the building.

The militants, who held more than 1,000 people hostage in the gym during the three-day siege, had been demanding the withdrawal of Russian troops from the nearby region of Chechnya.