Children among several killed in Russia school shooting

At least six people have been killed and some 20 wounded as a gunman opens fire in a school in the central Russian city of Izhevsk

Izhevsk, a city of 640,000 located west of the Ural mountains in central Russia, has been hit by the deadly school shooting.

The motive for Monday's shooting in Izhevsk, capital of the Udmurtia region about 970 kilometres east of Moscow, was unclear. Officials said the attacker "committed suicide". Governor of Udmurtia Alexander Brechalov said in a video statement that the still unidentified gunman shot himself.

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