This is the first of two days of
national mourning, but here in Beslan it's a day of very personal pain. More than 100 victims of the school siege will be
laid to rest. With so many dead - including so many children - it feels like
the heart has been ripped from this small town.
Across Beslan this morning the sound of wailing echoed from the windows of apartment blocks; there isn't a family here which hasn't been
touched by this tragedy. And at what used to be School Number One but is now
a bombed-out shell, two mothers, whose children had died here, laid flowers, then they stood in silence, staring at the
rubble.
Three days after the end of the siege, some in Beslan are still searching for relatives - more than 190 people are
unaccounted for.
