At least 15 people died, 11 of them minors, in a shooting in a school in the Russian city of Izhevsk, according to international media.
In the attack, which occurred in the town located at the foot of the Ural Mountains and about 970 kilometers east of Moscow, 24 other people, mostly children, were also injured, according to authorities in the Eurasian country.
The attacker was identified as a 34-year-old man, a former student of Izhevsk School 88. He himself showed up at the educational center armed with air pistols modified to fire live bullets, and opened fire on several people before committing suicide.
Alexander Brechalov, governor of the Russian republic of Udmurtia, where the events occurred, confirmed that the author of the shots committed suicide and the Ministry of the Interior reported that the police found his body at the scene.
As it has transpired, the attacker was in the patient registry of a psychiatric hospital and in the magazines of the pistols that he used in the shooting the word “hate” could be read written in red ink. Also Has been reported that the man was dressed in black and had a red swastika in a circle drawn on his T-shirt.
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The attacker, who was wearing a T-shirt with a Nazi symbol, committed suicide.
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Authorities have said their possible link to Nazi ideology is being investigated. So far, the event has not been linked to the war in Ukraine or to the mobilization of troops carried out by Moscow in response to the current counteroffensive in kyiv.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has denounced the event as “an act of inhuman terrorism”, while the Kremiln spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, conveyed official condolences for the tragedy, which he described as a “terrorist attack”.
In Izhevsk school 88, located a few meters from the city administration, about a thousand students study, according to Russian media cited by the agency. EFE.
According to the Spanish media, Udmurtia declared mourning for the victims of the attack on the school that will last until September 29.
