A gunman killed 15 people, including seven children, and wounded 24 other people in a school in central Russia on Monday, authorities said.
A school shooting in Izhevsk, Russia has left 13 people, including seven children, dead and 21 others wounded, authorities said.A gunman opened fire in a school in central Russia on Monday, killing 15 people and wounding 24 others before shooting himself dead, authorities said.
Russia's Investigative Committee identified the gunman as 34-year-old Artyom Kazantsev, a graduate of the same school, and said he was wearing a black t-shirt bearing "Nazi symbols." No details about his motives have been released. The governor of Udmurtia, Alexander Brechalov, said the gunman, who he said was registered as a patient at a psychiatric facility, killed himself after the attack.
"President Putin deeply mourns deaths of people and children in the school, where a terrorist act took place," Peskov told reporters Monday.