17 dead in Russian school shooting by former pupil bearing ‘Nazi symbols’
A gunman opened fire in a school in central Russia on Sept. 26, killing 17 people, including 11 children, before shooting himself dead, authorities said.
The shooting took place in School No. 88 in Izhevsk, a city 960 kilometers east of Moscow in the Udmurtia region. The school educates children between grades one and 11.
Russia’s Investigative Committee identified the gunman as 34-year-old Artyom Kazantsev, a graduate of the school, and said he was wearing a black T-shirt bearing “Nazi symbols.” No details about his motives have been released.
The regional governor, Alexander Brechalov, said the gunman was registered as a patient at a psychiatric facility. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said President Vladimir Putin “deeply mourns” the deaths and described the incident as “a terrorist act by a person who apparently belongs to a neo-fascist organization or group.”
He said doctors, psychologists and neurosurgeons had been sent on Putin’s orders to the location of the shooting. (AP, Reuters)
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