Russia: At least 13 dead including 7 children following a shooting in a school – 20 Minutes

A shooting broke out at a school in Izhevsk, central Russia, killing at least 13 people, including seven children, investigators said on Monday, who added that the shooter had committed suicide. “According to preliminary data, 13 people, including six adults and seven minors, were victims of the crime, 14 children and 7 adults were injured,” the investigators said in a statement. dead in this crime, among them two school security guards, two teachers and five minors, “said the Russian Investigation Committee. The suspect “wore a black T-shirt with Nazi symbolism and a balaclava “, added the same source, specifying that” his identity is being established “. Investigators released a video showing the body of an individual lying on the ground, blood around the skull and wearing a black sweater with a red swastika on it. “The police have found the body of the man who opened fire. According to our information, he committed suicide,” the ministry had already indicated. “There are victims among the children and injured people,” the region’s governor, Alexander Bretchalov, had said a little earlier, visibly moved, in a video posted on Telegram. from Izhevsk. Behind him, we could see medical personnel entering the building at a run. The FSB present on the spot According to him, “an unidentified person entered the school” before “killing the guard” and opening the fire inside the school, especially on the children. “The evacuation is complete” and “the entire perimeter is cordoned off”, added Alexander Brechalov in his video, specifying that the Russian National Guard, the FSB security services and “the authorities in charge of the investigation” were already there. Earlier in the morning, the Russian Interior Ministry had indicated that “the police (had) received a message about a shooting at school No. 88 in Izhevsk”. immediately returned to the scene, ”added this source. More and more fatal shootings in Russia of the Urals which marks the separation between European Russia and Asian Russia. is alarmed, seeing in it a phenomenon imported from the United States and a perverse effect of globalization. In April, a man had opened fire in a nursery school and killed two children as well as a teacher, before committing suicide, in the region of Ulyanovsk, also in central Russia. The deadliest shooting dates back to October 2018, when a high school student killed 19 people before killing himself in a high school in Kerch, in the annexed peninsula of Crimea.