Marina Zhukayeva

Age: 31

Summary: Russian housewife who remained hospitalized on life support in a coma for nearly a year due to severe head injuries suffered in the September 2004 school hostage-taking at Middle School Number One in the southern Russian town of Beslan after she was taken hostage with her two daughters (both of whom survived) on the first day of class when terrorists from a Chechen separatist group seized a playground assembly at gunpoint and herded roughly 1,200 people into the gym, in which the siege ended two days later after two large explosion set off a disorganized battle between the captors and the Russian security forces killing more than 330 civilians, including 186 children.

Cause of Death: Complications of injuries sustained during the terrorist attack

Born: October 23, 1973

Died: August 1, 2005

Location: Vladikavkaz, Russia