BESLAN, Russia—Officials pushed Friday to get food and water to children and adult hostages that may number more than 1,000 held in a school here for a third day by militants said to be demanding the pullout of Russian troops from Chechnya.
Distraught family members kept up a round-the-clock vigil outside School No. 1 while women, among a group of 26 hostages freed Thursday, gave Russian newspapers harrowing accounts of conditions inside the building.
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