Beslan school siege: Russia ‘failed to prevent’ 2004 massacre

Russia says it will appeal against a ruling by the European Court of Human Rights that said the government failed to prevent the 2004 Beslan school massacre.

Russia says it will appeal against a ruling by the European Court of Human Rights that said the government failed to prevent the 2004 Beslan school massacre.

More than 300 people died in the three-day standoff, many of them children.

Al Jazeera’s Rory Challands reports from Moscow.