At least 20 other people were injured by the gunman.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Republic of Udmurtia has just reported that at school number 88 in Izhevsk, the capital of this Russian territorial entity located 1200 kilometers east of Moscow, an unknown person opened fire on students and teaching staff, causing at least 13 dead, including 7 children, and 20 injured. The same source shows that the police are still looking for the killer.
“Today the police received a report of a shooting at Number School. 88 in the city of Izhevsk. Police officers immediately went to the scene. Measures are being taken to arrest the suspect,” said the police press release, which also said they are trying to specify the exact number of victims.
According to the Russian agency Interfax, officials of the Russian Ministry of Education have already left Moscow for Izhevsk. “A group of experts from the ministry has immediately left for the region by order of Education Minister Sergei Kravtsov. The Minister of Education and Science of the Republic of Udmurtia is already on site,” he said in another statement.
Shortly before that, the president of Udmurtia, Alexander Brechálov, assured on his Telegram channel that “units of special services, doctors and ambulances were already at school number 88 in Izhevsk.” Located on Púshkinskaya Street in the capital of Udmurtia, this educational center has a capacity of 982 students and employs 80 teachers.
Several videos on local social media show police cars, ambulances and uniformed people outside the school. The images also show the children leaving school and the moment a person is evacuated on a stretcher. “I saw a lot of blood on the stairs,” said one of the students.
Last December, a dozen teenagers were injured in an explosion at the entrance to an Orthodox school on the territory of the 14th-century Vvdensky Vladichny Monastery in the city of Serpukhov, south of Moscow. The attacks were committed by an 18-year-old former student who, according to authorities, initially planned to set himself on fire.
In October last year, Dima Gubayev, a 12-year-old student at a school on the outskirts of Perm, a city about 1,400 kilometers east of Moscow, near Izhevsk, entered his classroom while firing his rifle. he caused only a minor injury. Worse was in September 2021, when 18-year-old Timur Bekmansurov shot dead six classmates from Perm University and injured more than 40. A few months earlier, a 19-year-old opened fire at a school in Kazan, killing nine people.
Source: La Verdad
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