That was certainly true in Beslan, Alania, in the autumn of 2004, when hundreds of people, many of them young children on their first day at school, were killed in a brutal conflict between terrorists and security forces.
از آنجا که این رویداد تأثرآور حادثه‌ای غیرقابل پیشبینی بود نمی‌توان گفت که چرا بعضی‌ها کشته شدند و بعضی دیگر زنده ماندند .‏