A teenager was arrested for the attack that took place on Tuesday morning inside a school in the city of Kazan in Russia, which is located 820 km east of Moscow. Eleven people, including 7 children, were killed and 16 injured (12 children and 4 adults) and are being treated.
A second gunman was reportedly neutralized by police inside the building. However information remains confused about the existence of a second gunman with some news agencies reporting that the perpetrator was one, who was arrested.
Authorities say security has been restored at a school in Kazan, the predominantly Muslim capital of the Russian Republic of Tatarstan.
Police have launched an investigation into the attack and so far the motive of the perpetrator or perpetrators remains unknown.
Armored police officers and emergency service vehicles rushed to School N.175 after the attack.
Students jumped out of windows to be saved
Visual footage posted on social media shows children jumping out of classroom windows to be rescued and injured children being kicked out of school.
At least two children were killed falling from windows of the four-story building.
Another video shows a teenager lying on the floor and police arresting him outside the school building.
According to the president of Tatarstan, the suspect arrested is 19 years old. “He was allowed to carry a weapon,” Rustam Minikhanov told state television, calling the attack a “tragedy” and a “disaster.”
The news agencies Interfax, Ria and TASS, as broadcast by the Athens News Agency, reported that the second perpetrator had been fortified inside the school and eventually fell dead from police bullets.
“We heard an explosion from the school building and saw thick smoke,” an eyewitness told Ria Novosti, speaking on condition of anonymity.
“I was in the classroom, first I heard an explosion and then shots,” a schoolteacher told TASS.
This was the most serious armed attack on her school Russia since 2018 when a high school student had opened fire indiscriminately killing 19 people and then committed suicide at a high school in Kerch, Crimea.
Violent episodes starring students have increased in Russia in recent years.
Following today’s attack, the Tatarstan authorities announced that they would strengthen security measures in the other schools of this city, which has a population of about 1.2 million.
City officials declared tomorrow a day of mourning.
Russian President Vladimir Putin today ordered an urgent review of gun control regulations, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peshkov said, expressing his condolences to the families of the victims.
In addition, the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations will send doctors and psychologists to Kazan to provide assistance to the injured in the attack, according to a Kremlin statement.
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