Women rampage after Beslan ruling

Women who lost relatives in Russia's Beslan school siege ransacked a courtroom when a judge granted amnesty to three local police officers accused of failing to stop gunmen from seizing the school.

A group of about 25 women smashed courtroom windows, overturned furniture and tore down blinds and a Russian flag.

The police officers are the only officials put on trial over the 2004 massacre of 331 people, half of them children.

Victims' groups say the operation to free the hostages was botched and that the government and courts have concealed official shortcomings.