RUSSIA: A gunman has opened fire at a school in central Russia, killing at least 17 people and injuring 24, Russian officials say

editor September 26, 2022 0

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A gunman has opened fire at a school in central Russia, killing at least 17 people and injuring 24, Russian officials say. The victims include 11 children at the school of about 1,000 pupils in the city of Izhevsk.

The gunman killed himself at the scene and was a former pupil of the school. Videos posted online appear to show panic inside the building where the shooting took place, with children and adults running along corridors.

Other footage shows blood on a classroom floor and a bullet hole in a window, with children crouching down underneath desks.

Eleven children and four adults were killed, including two security guards and two teachers, according to Russia's investigative committee. All but two of the 24 injured people were children.

Staff and pupils have been evacuated from the school building, which is in central Izhevsk - a city of about 650,000 residents.

Investigators previously said a gunman had killed nine, including five children, at the school before killing himself. The motive for the shooting in Izhevsk, capital of the Udmurtia region about 970km east of Moscow, was unclear.

Russia’s investigative committee, which handles major crimes, said the gunman was wearing a balaclava and a black T-shirt with Nazi symbols. It said his identity had not yet been established

Credits: BBC

Two teachers and two security personnel, according to the committee, were the other victims. Information on the number of injured people was still being gathered. Earlier, the Russian interior ministry reported that the attack had injured 20 people.

In recent years, there have been multiple school shootings in Russia. In Kazan, Russia, in May 2021, a young gunman killed two adults and seven children. A gunman attacked a kindergarten in the centre of Ulyanovsk in April 2022, killing two kids and a teacher before committing suicide.

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