[Ynet] - Six students and a teacher died after shots were fired at a school in southwest Russia on Tuesday, the RIA news agency said, citing emergency services.
An explosion was heard at the school in the city of Kazan
| ...capitol of the no-longer-Soviet Autonomous Republic of Tartarstan... |
and one gunman was detained, RIA added. Interfax news agency cited a source as saying that there were two attackers at the school and that the second could still be in the building
At least nine people were killed — seven eighth-grade students, a teacher and another school worker — and 21 others were hospitalized, Russian officials said.
“The terrorist has been arrested, (he is) 19 years old. A firearm is registered in his name. Other accomplices haven’t been established, an investigation is underway,” Tatarstan governor Rustam Minnikhanov said after visiting the school.
Russian media said the shooter was a former student of the school who reportedly called himself “a god” on his account on the messaging app Telegram and promised to “kill a large amount of biomass” on the morning of the shooting. The account was blocked by Telegram after the attack, the independent news outlet Meduza said.
Russian lawmaker Alexander Khinshtein said on Telegram the suspect received his gun license less than two weeks ago and the school didn’t have any security aside from a panic button.
The suspected attacker has been widely named locally as Ilnaz Galyaviev. |