Story of Bashkir children walking to school with axes appeared on BBC

Ksenia Kalinina

UFA, 11 November 2016. /Bashinform News Agency, Ksenia Kalinina/. The story of the Bashkir children armed with axes appeared on the BBC News Channel. The news channel of the British Broadcasting Corporation as well as the Daily Mail edition were interested in the news about rural schoolchildren getting to the place of study through the forest with axes. «Russia children «face wolf attacks» on walk to school» that’s the title on BBC News. The authors studied feature articles in the regional media on the topic.

«Once the story made headlines, the authorities announced that transport would be provided after all. The local Bashinform news agency says a four-wheel-drive vehicle has been allocated after the intervention of the district prosecutor's office”, BBC News cited our republican news agency.

Earlier, the Daily Mail published an article and a video under the title «The world's toughest school run: Children forced to arm themselves with axes to fend off WOLVES and BEARS in Russia».

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