mo4ch:>‘I recall a smell of plastic and bodies melting together’: What Beslan siege survivors can’t forget | Mo4ch News

Fifteen years on, the terrorist attack that killed 334 victims –mostly children– still defines those who got out alive. In a new RT documentary, they return to the school gym where hostages were held, to face their own nightmares.“This is bone cement. Here’s a shunt. This is plastic. Titanium, titanium, titanium. Bone cement. Bone… Shunt, shunt. And another shunt. And more bone cement. Cement,” Fatima Dzgoeva says, as she points to dents and bumps on her skull.“I’ve had five surgeries on my scalp,” she says, almost with pride, though her tone is hard to pinpoint, as Fatima’s voice is slurred and missing consonants, a legacy of the brain damage she sustained when one of the terrorists' explosives detonated. She was just ten. After the siege, her head was covered in so many bandages her aunt Lana identified her only by a mole on her body.Medics wouldn’t let Lana identify Fatima’s eight-year-old sister because her body was “too charred.”Fatima shows the film crew her rehab exercises …