The individual, dressed in a black t-shirt featuring a swastika at the front and wearing a balaclava, broke into the school and began shooting indiscriminately. Finally, the attacker committed suicideaccording to the Sputnik news agency.
“The policemen found the body of the man who opened fire. According to our information, he committed suicide,” said the Ministry of Interior Russian.
the regional governor, Alexander Brechalov, noted in an emotional address on Telegram that “among the victims” were children and that a security guard was killed. The ruler spoke before the school n°88 of Izhevsk and in the background the medical staff could be seen entering the building.
“The evacuation is over” and the “whole perimeter is cordoned off,” Brechalov added in the video, specifying that the Russian National Guardsecurity services FSB and the authorities in charge of the investigation are in the place.
“President Vladimir Putin deeply mourns the death of people and children in this school where a terrorist attack was perpetrated,” the spokesman for the Kremlin, Dmitry Peskov. “The president wishes that those wounded in this inhuman terrorist act recover,” he added.
Russia is experiencing a climate of tension
The events took place in this city just west of the Urals, which divide the European part from the Asian part of Russia, and which houses the factories of the kalashnikov assault rifles.
Russia is experiencing a tense climate in many regions, in a context of military mobilization of hundreds of thousands of reservists for the offensive in Ukraine.
This Monday too a man opened fire at a recruiting center of the Russian army in Siberiaseriously injuring a soldier who worked there.
The phenomenon of shootings used to be very unusual in Russia, especially in schools, but in recent years it has become more frequent, to the point that the president Vladimir Putin expressed concern attributing the causes to events imported from USA and the perverse effect of globalization.
Source: Ambito
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