Nine people, including five children, were killed in a shooting at a school in the Russian city of Izhevsk, a Russian investigative committee said.
The city of Izhevsk is about 600 miles east of Moscow, the capital of Russia. Today (26) a terrible shooting was conducted in one of the schools of this city where more than 6,00,000 people live.
According to the Russian Investigative Committee, two teachers and two security guards, including five children, were shot dead.
The gunman’s body
In addition, the country’s interior ministry said that up to 20 people were seriously injured in this attack and the body of the gunman was recovered from the scene by the police.
Moreover, while the motive for this shooting is not yet clear, the governor of Utmurtia region, Alexander Brechalov, said.
Russia has seen a spate of school shootings in recent years.
Last May 2021, a teenage gunman killed seven children and two adults in the city of Kazan.