The crisis took place from 14 June to 19 June 1995 , when a group of 80 to 200 Chechen terrorists led by Shamil Basayev attacked the southern Russian city of Budyonnovsk , where they stormed the main police station and the city hall . After several hours of fighting and Russian reinforcements imminent , the Chechens retreated to the residential district and regrouped in the city hospital , where they took between 1,500 and 1,800 hostages , most of them civilians ( including about 150 children and a number of women with newborn infants )
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Budyonnovsk hospital hostage crisis
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