13 dead including 7 children in school shooting in Russia

Moscow, 26/9: A gunman killed 13 people, including seven children, and wounded 21 other people in a school in central Russia on Monday, authorities said.

Russia’s Investigative Committee said the shooting took place in a school in Izhevsk, a city about 960 kilometres (600 miles) east of Moscow in the Udmurtia region. Those wounded were 14 children and 7 adults, the Committee said.

 

The governor of Udmurtia, Alexander Brechalov, said in a video statement that the still unidentified gunman shot himself.