MOSCOW, Russia — A gunman with a swastika on his teeshirt killed 13 individuals, together with seven kids, and wounded not less than 21 at a faculty in Russia on Monday earlier than dying by suicide, investigators mentioned.
The id of the attacker and the motive for the capturing in Izhevsk, about 600 miles east of Moscow, weren’t clear.
Russia’s Investigative Committee, which handles main crimes, mentioned the gunman was carrying a balaclava. It launched a brief video exhibiting his physique mendacity on the ground of a classroom with overturned furnishings and papers strewn on the ground. He was dressed all in black, with a purple swastika in a circle drawn on his teeshirt.
The committee mentioned the six grownup victims included lecturers and safety guards. It mentioned 21 individuals, together with 14 kids, had been wounded.
Tass information company quoted investigators as saying the attacker was armed with two pistols and a big provide of ammunition.
Russia has seen a number of college shootings lately.
In Might 2021, a teenage gunman killed seven kids and two adults within the metropolis of Kazan. In April 2022, an armed man killed two kids and a instructor at a kindergarten within the central Ulyanovsk area earlier than dying by suicide.
