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(5 Sep 2004) Near Beslan 1. Various of funeral procession approaching cemetery 2. Coffins being carried past open graves 3. Pan of mourners around coffin 4. Person holding photograph of deceased man 5. Grieving women 6. Coffin being lowered into grave 7. SOUNDBITE: (Russian) Kavbek Kubzayev: "The world had not known such a tragedy. Those who came to this school and destroyed the best that the people have, their children, cannot be considered human. They have brought so much suffering to this small Ossetian town. The whole of Ossetia is in mourning today. All people. And if this criminal act goes unpunished, this will deprive the people of their faith in the government because it is a disaster that these children were not protected." Vladikavkaz, 20 kilometres (miles) southeast of Beslan 8. Exterior of Ossetian Orthodox Church of the birth of the Mother of Christ 9. Wide shot of service 10. Father Timofei officiating at service 11. Woman with candle 12. Zoom in on candle flame Near Beslan 13. Wide shot of funeral services 14. Coffin being carried 15. Woman at service carrying photograph of little girl 16. Pan from grieving women to line of mourners filing past grave 17. Band playing music STORYLINE: Mourners gathered at a cemetery on the outskirts of Beslan on Sunday for the first of many funerals for victims of a school siege in which hundreds died. Several thousand mourners attended the funerals, which were for 30 of the hostages. Dozens of men dug graves in a football field-sized tract next to the cemetery in this southern Russia town, while surveyors across the road marked out new plots for burials on Monday. Meanwhile, churchgoers at an Ossetian Orthodox Church in Vladikavkaz, the regional capital of North Ossetia, attended a service to remember the dead. The hostage crisis began Wednesday when dozens of militants, reportedly demanding independence for Chechnya, seized the school on the first day of classes and herded hundreds of children, parents and others into a gymnasium wired with explosives. Russian officials said explosions were apparently set off by the militants - possibly by accident - as emergency workers entered the school courtyard to collect the bodies of hostages killed in the initial raid. There were conflicting reports of the death toll, which appeared to have been confused in part because of the large number of body fragments collected. A duty officer at the North Ossetian health ministry said Sunday that 350 victims had been killed, but the region's deputy health minister, Taimuraz Revazov, said only 324 were confirmed dead. Interfax quoted North Ossetian government spokesman Lev Dzugayev as saying the toll stood at 338. More than 540 people were wounded - mostly children. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...