RUSSIA SCHOOL SHOOTING LEAVES 13 DEAD AND 21 WOUNDED

Mon 26 September 2022:

Children were among the 13 people the gunman shot and killed on Monday at a school in central Russia, local police and government officials said.

“Thirteen people, including six adults and seven minors, were killed because of this crime,” Russia’s Investigative Committee said in a statement, adding that 14 children and seven adults were injured in the school in Izhevsk – a city of about 640,000 people about 960 kilometres (596 miles) east of Moscow in the Udmurtia region.

The regional governor, Alexander Brechalov, said: “There are victims among the children, there are wounded too.”

Russia’s interior ministry confirmed the shooting on its Telegram feed.

“Any shooting at a school is a cause for deep concern for authorities, families and the nation in general. We have seen that in the United States and many other countries,” said Al Jazeera’s Mohamed Vall, reporting from Moscow. “But Russians are saying this is not a frequent occurrence in Russia – and most of the time it is difficult to establish the motives behind it.”

Citing the Committee, Vall said the shooter carried “two pistols on him and a large supply of ammunition”.

The area surrounding the Izhevsk school, which serves students aged six to 17, has been fenced off and evacuated.

No information has been made public regarding the shooter, who later shot himself in the head. Only a few hours prior, a man opened fire at an enlistment center in Siberia, critically wounding a recruitment officer.

SOURCE: INDEPENDENT PRESS AND NEWS AGENCIES

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