• 6 killed, 20 injured in central Russia school shooting

    International
    6 killed, 20 injured in central Russia school shooting

    The governor and neighbourhood police claim that the shooter killed himself. The official said that the school had been closed and that a fence had been put up around it.

    Digital Desk: In a school in central Russia on Monday morning, a shooter killed six people and injured 20, including children.

    Alexander Brechalov, the governor of the Udmurtia region, stated in a video message that the as-yet unidentified shooter entered a school in the territory's capital, Izhevsk, and killed a guard and several of the students there. Children are victims, and there are also wounded, according to Brechalov.

    Children in the first through eleventh grades were taught there.

    The governor and neighbourhood police claim that the shooter killed himself. The official said that the school had been closed and that a fence had been put up around it.

    No information has been made public on the shooter or his intentions.

    Izhevsk, a city of 640,000 in central Russia, is 960 kilometres (596 miles) east of Moscow and situated west of the Ural mountains.