‘Up to nine people – including children – are killed’ in Russian school shooting as pupils jump from windows to escape
- Up to nine people were reported killed, at least ten wounded, at school in Kazan
- Children were seen jumping out of classroom windows to flee the attack
- Explosion was also reported during attack reportedly carried out by two gunmen
Up to nine people – including children – have reportedly been killed in a school shooting in the Russian city of Kazan.
Children were seen jumping out of windows to escape the attack which local media said was carried out by two gunmen. An explosion was also reported.
One 15-year-old said: ‘They took us out. First they told us to lock ourselves in the room, we locked ourselves in.
‘Then a strong explosion thundered, and in a minute the shooting began.’
Students are evacuated from the school in Kazan by ladder after shooting began
Teachers and pupils were evacuated from the school by ladder
A large crowd gathered outside the school including worried parents as gunshots were heard in the neighbourhood
People are seen clambering down a ladder from a top floor window after the shooting erupted
A crowd, including concerned parents, is gathered outside the school as dozens of emergency vehicles arrived at the scene
An unconfirmed report from BAZA said that nine were killed including two 14 year old boys.
Ten more were injured.
Earlier reports said that one was dead and another wounded.
But BAZA reported: ‘Nine people were killed, another 10 were injured during the shooting in Kazan.’
One report said that a teacher and seven pupils were killed.
Two armed males had entered the school number 175 and started shooting, reported Mash media.
There were claims the attackers were students but later one shooter was named by the media as Ilnaz Renatovich Galyaviev, 19.
He reportedly killed seven eighth graders – aged 13 to 14 – and one teacher.
TASS reported a teacher and six children were killed.
When he was detained, he said that he had planted a bomb at the place he lives.
One attacker was seen being overpowered by police on the steps of the school on Faizi Street in Kazan, a mainly Muslim city.
Another remained in the school, said reports.
Later it was reported the second attackers had been detained by police on the fourth floor of the school.
Interfax was told that a student carried a weapon to school and injured classmates.
Firefighters used ladders to evacuate children from the upper windows of the school building.
A large crowd gathered outside the school including worried parents.
Doctors were called to the school.
Security forces and emergency services were at the scene.
Local residents gathered outside the school gates after the shooting started
Fire engines and police cars arriving at the scene this morning
Emergency vehicles at the scene this morning
‘The prosecutor of the Republic of Tatarstan Ildus Nafikov left for the scene. The circumstances of the incident are being investigated,’ said an official.
Pupils were being evacuated from the school.
Kazan is the capital of mainly Muslim Tatarstan, an oil-rich region on the Volga River.
112 channel reported: ‘Two young men entered the school and opened fire in the corridor.
‘There were almost no children at that moment, since the lesson was already underway.
‘One of the shooters tried to escape through the window.’
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