At least eight people were killed, including five children, when a gunman opened fire on Monday at a school in the Siberian city of Izhevsk, Russia’s’ Investigative Committee reported.
At least 12 people were killed, including five children, when a gunman opened fire on Monday at a school in the central Russian city of Izhevsk, Russia’s Investigative Committee reported. The gunman, reportedly armed with two weapons, also killed himself.Among the dead was a school security guard and two schoolteachers. Earlier, Russia’s Interior Ministry reported at least 20 were wounded.
The gunmen, clad in black and wearing a black balaclava, shot the school security guard before walking into the school, opening fire on children, many of them as young as seven years old, according local media accounts. Panic-stricken children fled the school during the attack, as police with pistols raised rushed up stairwells and along school corridors, according to video aired by independent local media.
The school shooting, in the capital of the Russian republic of Udmurtia, occurred on the same day that a young Russian man shot the head of a local military enlistment office in the Irkutsk region of Siberia.Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a “partial mobilization” of troops in an address to the nation on Sept. 21, framing the move as an attempt to defend Russian sovereignty against a West that seeks to use Ukraine as a tool to “divide and destroy Russia.
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