"More than Number 331" - P.D.O.

Almost one year later, Beslan loses a mother to the ISLAMIC TERRORIST SIEGE: Woman Injured in Russian School Siege Dies.

VLADIKAVKAZ, Russia - A woman injured when Islamic terrorists seized a Russian elementary school last September has died, bringing the number killed in the hostage crisis to 331, a citizens' group said Monday.

Marina Zhukayeva, in her early 30s, died at her home on Monday, said Mairbek Tuayev, the leader of the group in Beslan, the North Ossetia town where the school was located. She had been on life support and in and out of a coma since shortly after the September 2004 attack, which ended in a explosions and gunfire.

Armed assailants seized the school on the first day of classes, setting in motion the deadliest in a series of terrorist attacks that shook Russia last summer.

Zhukayev had been there with her two children, who survived, though more than half of the hostages killed were children.