Seven children and two adults killed in school shooting in Russia

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Russia school shooting: Children and teacher killed in Kazan

Seven children and two adults have been killed in a shooting in the city of Kazan, officials say.

www.bbc.co.uk

Seven children and two adults have been killed in a shooting at a school in the Russian city of Kazan, officials say.

Twenty-one other people, mostly children, were injured. A 19-year-old suspect was detained.

The attack began at about 09:20 local time (06:20 GMT), a source in the emergency services told Russian news agency Tass. The first signal from a panic button at the school was sent five minutes later.
"Everyone started panicking and saying 'shut the doors'," a student who witnessed the attack told the Mediazona news website. "About a minute later the head teacher started yelling: 'We're shutting the doors!'

"We got out about 15 minutes later, not out of the windows. I wanted to do that, but the teacher closed the window immediately and said no."
Footage shared on social media shows some children jumping from windows to escape as well as injured people being evacuated. Russian TV reported that two of the children had died after jumping from a second-floor window.

Officials did not comment on the possible motive for the attack although Mr Minnikhanov called the attacker a "terrorist".

The suspect went on social media before the attack, posting that he planned to kill a "huge number" of people before shooting himself. Screenshots of his account, now blocked, show him wearing a black mask with the word "god" written across it in red.

 

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[Gergar12]

More gun in civilian hands means more deaths. Duh.