The gist: Two people were killed and five were injured in a shooting that occurred this Thursday morning at a school in Russia. It was a 14-year-old student who opened fire. She ended her life.
2 dead and 5 injured: these are the results of a shooting that occurred this Thursday morning in a school in Russia. The shooting occurred in Bryansk, a city in southwest Russia. The shooter is a 14-year-old student. She killed a comrade before turning the gun on herself and ending her life.
“The motives and circumstances” of the tragedy are currently being clarified, police say. Five children were injured and taken to hospital. According to the state agency Tass, the shooter’s father is being questioned by investigators.
“Today a terrible tragedy occurred at school No. 5 in Bryansk. One of the students brought a gun to school,” regional governor Alexandre Bogomaz wrote on Telegram.
Increase in shootings in Russia
Previously extremely rare, fatal shootings, particularly in schools, have tended to become more common in Russia in recent years, enough to alarm President Vladimir Putin, viewing them as a phenomenon imported from the United States and a perverse effect of globalization, leading to this that the law on carrying weapons has been tightened. In September 2022, 18 people were killed in a shooting in Izhevsk, central Russia. And in 2021, a 21-year-old attacker killed nine people at a school in Kazan, Tatarstan.