At Least 15 Killed in School Shooting in Russia, Including Children

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Source: New York Times

At least 15 people have been killed and 24 injured in a school shooting on Monday in the Russian city of Izhevsk, 600 miles east of Moscow, according to Russian authorities. The Kremlin called the shooting a terrorist attack. A gunman entered School Number 88, which teaches the first to 11th grades, and killed six adults and seven children, according to federal investigators, who also said the assailant killed himself.

According to the Investigative Committee, Russia’s top federal investigative authority, the attacker “was wearing a black top with Nazi symbols and a balaclava” and was not carrying any ID. “His identity is currently being established,” investigators said.

“President Putin deeply mourns the deaths of people, children at a school where there was a terrorist attack by a person, who apparently belongs to a neo-fascist group,” the Kremlin spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, told reporters during a phone call. “The president wishes for the recovery of those injured as a result of this inhuman terrorist attack.”

The shooting came on the same day a gunman opened fire at a Siberian military enlistment center, injuring a recruitment officer, as anger mounted over President Vladimir V. Putin’s plan to mobilize hundreds of thousands of civilians to bolster Russia’s struggling army in Ukraine.

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/26/world/europe/russia-school-shooting.html

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At Least 13 Killed in School Shooting in Russia, Including Children

At least 13 people have been killed and 20 more injured in a school shooting on Monday in the Russian city of Izhevsk, 600 miles east of Moscow, according to Russian authorities. The Kremlin called the incident a terrorist attack.

A gunman entered School Number 88, which teaches the first to 11th grades, and killed six adults and seven children, according to federal investigators, who also said the assailant killed himself.

According to the Investigative Committee, Russia's top federal investigative authority, the attacker "was wearing a black top with Nazi symbols and a balaclava" and was not carrying any ID. "His identity is currently being established," investigators said.

"President Putin deeply mourns the deaths of people, children at a school where there was a terrorist attack by a person, who apparently belongs to a neo-fascist group," the Kremlin spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, told reporters during a phone call. "The president wishes for the recovery of those injured as a result of this inhuman terrorist attack."

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At Least 9 Killed in School Shooting in Russia, Including Children

At least nine people have been killed and 20 injured in a school shooting on Monday in the Russian city of Izhevsk, 600 miles east of Moscow, according to Russian authorities.

A gunman entered School Number 88, which teaches the first to 11th grades, and killed two security guards, two teachers and at least five minors, according to federal investigators, who also said the assailant killed himself.

According to the Investigative Committee, Russia's top federal investigative authority, the attacker "was wearing a black top with Nazi symbols and a balaclava" and was not carrying any ID. "His identity is currently being established," investigators said.

Izhevsk, population 630,000, is the regional capital of the Udmurt Republic. The regional governor there, Aleksandr Brechalov, declared three days of mourning.

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[LaMouffette]

1. Deranged psychopath? Or desperate false flag operation to try to gin up support for Vlad's war?

Either way, that's probably how they'll spin it, that it was a Ukrainian Nazi who did it.

And either way, a tragedy. Likely inspired by American school shootings.

[blm]

8. This just doesn't pass a smell test.

[JI7]

2. REad somewhere that it was a former student of the school and he was in hihs 30s

IT was just a comment to some article or something so not sure if this is true at all.

[James48]

3. Send them Alex Jones.

Maybe that will work.

[Lovie777]

4. Why kill childrens?..............

[Walleye]

5. We know not to believe any official statements about this

[Yonnie3]

6. Reuters is now reporting 13 dead.

Link to tweet

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/gunman-opens-fire-school-russias-izhevsk-russian-media-cites-local-police-2022-09-26/

Swastika-wearing gunman kills 13 at Russian school

MOSCOW, Sept 26 (Reuters) - A gunman with a swastika on his teeshirt killed 13 people, including seven children, and wounded more than 20 at a school in Russia on Monday before committing suicide, investigators said.

Russia's Investigative Committee, which handles major crimes, said it was looking into the attacker's suspected neo-Nazi links. It named him as Artem Kazantsev, a man in his early thirties, and said he was a graduate of the school.

"Currently investigators ... are conducting a search of his residence and studying the personality of the attacker, his views and surrounding milieu," the committee said in a statement. "Checks are being made into his adherence to neo-fascist views and Nazi ideology."

Investigators released a short video showing the man's body lying on the floor of a classroom with overturned furniture and papers strewn on the bloodstained floor. He was dressed all in black, with a red swastika in a circle drawn on his teeshirt.

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[raccoon]

7. I would've thought that it would be very hard for a regular citizen to get a gun in Russia.

I would’ve thought that it would be very hard for a regular citizen to get a gun in Russia.But I really don’t know about that.

[Kyesha]

9. Easier than you think

The only reason I don't remember seeing any gun stores in Moscow is because the various mafias control sections of towns and didn't want threats against them. If you just got done shaking down the local bar for 40% of its earnings in a month, you probably don't want a gun store across the street. But you can get anything in Russia for a price. It's estimated that almost 50 percent of Russians buy their driver's license and don't pass their test. This would account for all those Russian Car Crash Compilations online.

[Aristus]

11. Look at the staggering corruption going on in their military.

Armorers probably selling AK-series rifles by the hundreds on the streets and pocketing the cash. U.S. Army armorers rarely do that, and anyway any citizen in this country can get his hands on military weaponry by walking into a store.

[Aristus]

10. There are better ways for other countries to emulate the United States.