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5 years on, wounds from Beslan school massacre still raw

With jet-black hair pulled tightly back and multiple earrings, Kristina Atayeva could be an average teenager, but the headaches, sore eyes, high blood pressure and sharp kidney pains she suffers from are more common in someone four times her age.

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With jet-black hair pulled tightly back and multiple earrings, Kristina Atayeva could be an average teenager, but the headaches, sore eyes, high blood pressure and sharp kidney pains she suffers from are more common in someone four times her age.

Kristina, her two sisters and mother Anzhela were among 1,000 children and parents taken hostage by Chechen separatists on the first day of the new school year on September 1, 2004.

Still Mourning: Women at a memorial inside the Beslan school gymnasium yesterday.

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