Moscow: Six people, including children, were killed and 20 others injured after a gunman fired shots at a school in the city of Izhevsk in central Russia.
Governor of the Udmurtia region, Alexander Brechalov, said in a video statement that the still unidentified shooter got into a school in Izhevsk, the region’s capital, killed a guard and some of the children there. “There are victims among the children, there are wounded too,” Brechalov said.
The school educated children between grades 1 and 11.
According to the governor and local police, the gunman shot himself. The school has been evacuated and the area around it has been fenced off, the official said.
Comments are closed.