In a school in Kazan, Russia, 23 people are injured, the authorities say nine fatalities.
Update from Wednesday, May 12th, 2021, 11.30 a.m.: After the bloody attack on a school in Russia, 23 people are still being treated in hospitals. Among them are 20 students, said the deputy head of the Republic of Tatarstan, Leila Faslejewa, according to the state agency Tass on Wednesday. Hours after the crime on Tuesday in the city of Kazan, there had been talk of 21 injured.
“Everyone’s condition is stable,” said Faslejewa. There are still seriously injured among the victims. Doctors wanted to move eight patients to the capital Moscow for treatment.
Meanwhile, according to the Tass agency, security forces arrested a man on the Crimea peninsula, which was annexed by Russia, who allegedly threatened to explode in a school on social networks. Details were initially not available. There had been multiple arrests following such threats in the past.
School shooting rampage in Russia: 19-year-old arrested after a murder in Kazan
+++ 2.20 p.m.: 18 of the 20 injured in the hospital are children, the regional authorities in Kazan currently announced. Six children are in a life-threatening condition and are being treated in the intensive care unit. The Anti-Terrorism Committee said 16 were injured. It opened an investigation into “murder”, which did not speak for a terrorist act. The authority spoke of only one perpetrator.
The spokeswoman for the President of the Russian Republic of Tatarstan, whose capital is Kazan, also made it clear that there was “only one attacker”. The Russian Investigation Committee said the suspect arrested was a resident of the city born in 2001.
School shooting in Russia: 19-year-old arrested
+++ 12.43 p.m.: According to new information from the investigative authorities, seven students were killed in the firearms attack on a school in Kazan in central Russia. The Russian Counter-Terrorism Committee announced on Tuesday that there were seven fatalities. The city administration of Kazan, however, spoke of eight deaths. Several Russian news agencies had previously spoken of eleven dead. The anti-terror committee also did not confirm the agency reports about a second attacker who was killed.
A little later, the authorities confirmed the arrest of a 19-year-old. The head of the Republic of Tartastan, Rustam Minnichanow, called him a “terrorist”. The weapon used is also said to have been registered on the 19-year-old. According to reports, he was only given the gun license in April. The background was initially unclear.
Attack on school in Russia: 18 school children injured
+++ 12.30 p.m.: After the fatal attack on a school in Russia, 18 school children are treated in hospitals. Six of them are in critical condition, the authorities said on Tuesday, according to the Interfax agency. The first operations were already under way. Doctors also examined children with injuries, broken bones and bruises. Some students reportedly jumped out of the window to get to safety. In addition, three adults were injured.
+++ 11.45 a.m.: After an armed attack on a Russian school, President Vladimir Putin expressed his condolences to the relatives of the victims. “The President extends his condolences to the relatives of the children who died at the hand of the shooter and wishes the schoolchildren who were injured a speedy recovery,” said Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov on Tuesday, according to the Interfax agency. Putin also instructed to work out a new regulation for civil arms possession.
According to the head of the republic, eight people were killed in the attack on the school in the city of Kazan in the Republic of Tatarstan on Tuesday morning – most of them children. The state agencies had previously reported 11 dead.
Rampage in Russia: perpetrators are said to have announced the act on Telegram
+++ 11.05 a.m.: According to media reports, the arrested 19-year-old should have graduated from school about four years ago. Shortly before going to school in Kazan, he announced the crime on the Telegram news channel, it is said. He is said to have entered the school with a machine gun through a main entrance and immediately shot around. There were also reports of a possible second attacker, but these were not initially confirmed.
After earlier attacks on schools, many educational institutions in the vast country have security guards at entrances. It was initially unclear whether this was also the case at school number 175 in Kazan.
Russia: At least 11 fatalities after shooting at school in Kazan – young people arrested
+++ 10:20 a.m.: Was initially not sure whether the attack on the school was about two shooters, the Russian news agencies are currently reporting a second shooter who was killed. The first juvenile shooter has already been arrested.
Initial report from Tuesday, May 11th, 2021: Kazan – An attack occurred at a school in the Russian city of Kazan. As reported by several Russian media, including two state news agencies, there was talk of two shooters. The fire had been opened, and an explosion was said to have been heard.
At least eleven people are said to have died. The victims are said to be mainly schoolchildren and a teacher.
Kazan: dead after shooting in school – one suspect arrested
The police arrested a young suspect, according to the Ria Novosti Agency. Another perpetrator may initially have stayed in the building. The pupils were taken out of school – including to a neighboring kindergarten. Numerous students are said to have jumped out of the window on the third floor.
Nothing is yet known about a possible motive for the crime and further background to the police operation.
On-site videos showed ambulances and police vehicles speeding towards the school with flashing lights and sirens. People stood in front of the building and watched the situation. Later the school was cordoned off on a large scale. Kazan is located about 720 kilometers east of Moscow. In Russia, schools did not start until Tuesday after more than a week’s vacation. (Daniel Dillmann / ktho) We continuously report on the events.
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