She ' s not either but she ' s more than Trump . <| sep |> That and doctors didn ' t know how to reverse the effects of the gas . Because paramedics couldn ' t treat the hostages that inhaled the gas , they died because of it . NO and NO . Its like puking because you drank alocohol and choking on your tongue , because you passed out . You dont die because of the alcohol , but because you cant breathe . If you pass out , your tongue , which is a big muscle , goes limp and blocks your way to breathe , if you lie on your back . This is what happened to almost all of them and this is why you learn to make the lateral recumbent position in your first aid courses because a lot of heavy road casualties pass out . If you lie on your back with a limp tongue , you have no way of breathing , and the victims were lying for a long time without someone putting them into a lateral recumbent position . The thing with the reversing effects of the gas that was only to some people , who had long time effects on it and the few who died to it in the hospital . The gas was a fentanyl derivate , so they died like someone with a opium overdose . The one with the long time effects went to court later on and got compensation from the russian goverment . And either way , sitting there and waiting wasn ' t a great choice . it was , because they were negotiating . Most of the hostages were in the sports hall of the school and it was rigged with explosives with a divided Dead Man switch for 3 sectors of the sports hall . It was a step switch , so if one of the terrorists lifted his leg , his part of the hall would have exploded . Additional , the leader of massacre held the 4 th dead man switch , which triggered all explosives . On the first day , they release 30 something babies and small children after negotiations between the expresident of Inguschetia and the terrorists . On the second day , they released another 26 hostages . On the third day , the explosives somehow triggered , either intentional or by accident , and the hostages started to flee , everyone panicked and everything was in deep chaos . The ALFA and Wympel operators started shooting while the terrorists started shooting at the fleeing hostages . If they would have stormed on day 1 , the body count would have been 1200 .