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The Beslan school hostage crisis (also referred to as the Beslan school siege or Beslan massacre)was a three day hostage-taking of over 1,100 people which ended in the deaths of over 380. It began when a group of armed mostly Ingush and Chechen militants took more than 1,100 people (including 777 children) hostage on 1 September 2004, at School Number One (SNO) in the town of Beslan, North Ossetia, an autonomous republic in the North Caucasus region of the Russian Federation.
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Marines and Sailors of Combat Logistics Battalion 24 and Battalion Landing Team, 1st Battalion, 9th Marine Regiment, 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit set out from USS Nassau in order to conduct a site survey and humanitarian assistance in La Gonave, Haiti, Jan. 25, 2010. The Marines were split up into two teams, one stayed at the local hospital, using corpsmen to give medical aid to the locals and the other went on to help with handing out Meals Ready-to-Eat.
" Major Mark Bieger found this little girl after the car bomb that attacked our guys while kids were crowding around. The soldiers here have been angry and sad for two days. They are angry because the terrorists could just as easily have waited a block or two and attacked the patrol away from the kids. Instead, the suicide bomber drove his car and hit the Stryker when about twenty children were jumping up and down and waving at the soldiers. Major Bieger, I had seen him help rescue some of our guys a week earlier during another big attack, took some of our soldiers and rushed this little girl to our hospital. He wanted her to have American surgeons and not to go to the Iraqi hospital. She didn’t make it. I snapped this picture when Major Bieger ran to take her away. He kept stopping to talk with her and hug her."
- Michael Yon Online Magazine, Mosul, Iraq
2008 - Hero Westcountry Marine Will Charters carries a wounded girl to sick bay after she was injured in a rocket attack by Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan.
The girl was one of two children seriously injured in the attack before they were taken into the care of the Royal Marines, who are on patrol in the southern Afghan district of Sangin.
The men of Bravo Company 40 Commando Royal Marines were handed the two girls by their uncle at the patrol base in the Helmand Province moments after the attack.
Marine Charters, 19, from Exeter, was first on the scene and, scooping the girl into his arms, he rushed her to the Bravo Company sick bay.
November 2010 - An attack on a police station killed at least 25 people and wounded scores more Thursday in Karachi, Pakistan. Taliban fighters began the attack with a volley of gunfire, then detonated a car bomb that left a 40-foot crater in front of the building. The attack brought down the police station, killing dozens, injuring at least 100, and trapping people under the rubble.
