BESLAN, Russia, Sept 3 (AFP) - Around 350 local residents and former hostages were taken to hospital Friday after being wounded in the hostage siege here, Inferfax reported.
A source in the local health ministry told the agency that some have been hospitalised in the regional capital Vladikavkaz, while others have gone to the two hospitals in Beslan, the southern Russian town where the hostage drama took place.
One hundred and fifty-eight children are among those taken to hospital in Beslan, a source close to the regional president told Moscow Echo radio.
Earlier an AFP correspondent said at least 10 people, children and adults, had been taken out dead on stretchers.