A 14-year-old lady shot and killed a schoolmate and wounded 5 different kids on Thursday earlier than killing herself at a college within the western Russian metropolis of Bryansk, officers mentioned.
“In response to preliminary investigation information, a 14-year-old lady introduced a pump-action shotgun to high school, from which she fired photographs at her classmates,” Russia’s Investigative Committee, the nation’s equal to the F.B.I., mentioned in an announcement.
Investigators had been working to ascertain the motive, it mentioned.
The regional governor of the Bryansk area, Aleksandr V. Bogomaz, referred to as the shootings a “horrible tragedy” and mentioned the wounded kids had sustained gentle or average accidents.
Weapons are usually tightly managed in Russia, however Bryansk is one among a number of areas which have seen cross-border assaults in the midst of the warfare with Ukraine, and the place Moscow has inspired the formation of self-defense items.
“Along with legislation enforcement companies, we’re figuring out the circumstances underneath which the scholar was in a position to get hold of and convey a weapon to high school,” Mr. Bogomaz mentioned.
Russia has seen a number of college shootings in recent times.
In 2018, an 18-year-old pupil killed 20 folks, largely fellow pupils, in a mass capturing at a school in Russian-occupied Crimea, which Moscow seized from Ukraine in 2014.
In September final yr, a gunman with a swastika on his T-shirt killed 15 folks, together with 11 kids, and wounded 24 at a college in Izhevsk the place he had as soon as been a pupil, after which died by suicide, investigators mentioned.
