A 14-year-old girl killed a classmate and then committed suicide and opened fire at the school in the southwestern Russian city of Bryansk. Local authorities announced that the teenager entered the school with a hunting rifle and then shot his classmates: Five young people were injured and taken to the hospital.
Videos posted online show students barricading themselves in the gym as gunshots are heard.
Once extremely rare, especially in schools, fatal shootings have increased in Russia in recent years, and President Vladimir Putin has tightened gun-carrying laws. In September 2022, 18 people were killed in a shooting attack in Izhevsk in central Russia. And in 2021, a 21-year-old attacker killed nine people at a school in Kazan, Tatarstan.
Source: Today IT
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