THE death toll in the Russian school atrocity stood at 323 last night, 156 of them children.
The grim figure was issued as the full horror of the massacre unfolded, with witnesses telling how the Chechen terrorists STABBED toddlers and RAPED children.
At mortuaries, the gruesome task faced by parents trying to identify their little ones became a living nightmare as they realised many of the tiny bodies were mutilated almost beyond recognition.
And last night doctors predicted the death toll would hit 400 due to the appalling injuries suffered by another 500 victims.
One medic warned: "Many of those who live will be invalids. Some do not have eyes."
Alexander Nekrasow, a Russian government advisor, described how babies had been subjected to knife attacks from the militants. He said: "One of them is a child, 18 months old, with several knife wounds."
Other survivors described how 15-year-old girls screamed in agony as they were raped by the terrorists.
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