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Alan Kodzhayev (left), Tamara Beroyeva, and Zalina Kodzhayeva - Two members of this family were Beslan hostages: Tamara and her grandson Alan, who was entering second grade that year. When asked how they managed to survive, Tamara says, "With God's help!... During the explosions at the end of the siege, I was sheltering Alan with my body and part of the ceiling, full of iron bars, fell down on me. It got quiet, and I came to. I whispered to Alan, 'Let me get my legs free and we'll run away.' But when I got out from under the weight, I realized Alan wasn't there. I looked for him everywhere, but he wasn't around. I started running and shouting. And then one of the terrorists came toward me and ordered everyone to move to the cafeteria. I told him, 'I won't move until I find my grandson!' But he hit me with his gun, so I followed him. I went into the cafeteria, and there was Alan, hiding between the furnace and the table, in his underwear, holding a cookie in one hand and a glass of wat