Victims’ Relatives Want Regional President Out
From Times Wire Reports
About 100 parents and grandparents of children who were killed in a school massacre last year blocked a key highway in southern Russia for a second day to underline their demand that the regional president step down, a police official said.
North Ossetian President Alexander Dzasokhov spoke with the demonstrators, the ITAR-Tass news agency said. The protesters also reportedly called for an international investigation into the terrorist attack at the elementary school in Beslan.
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