Russia: attacker penetrates school and shoots numerous students – possible motive: "hate"

According to the authorities, at least nine people were killed in an attack on a school in the Russian city of Kazan. Dramatic videos are circulating.

Update from May 11, 4:20 p.m.: After the armed attack on a school in Kazan, the horror in Russia is great. According to the authorities, there are now at least nine fatalities. A 19 year old was arrested. The authorities in the Republic of Tatarstan initially ruled out a terrorist background. The motive for the act is, however, still unclear.

The state agency Tass wrote, citing security circles of “hatred” as a possible motive of the alleged perpetrator. The 19-year-old was not previously noticed by the police. “He grew up quite ordinary,” it was said. As the investigation committee announced in the afternoon, criminal proceedings for murder have been initiated against the young man.

In the capital, Moscow, government representatives and State Duma deputies observed the victims with a minute’s silence. President Vladimir Putin had already expressed his condolences to the relatives of the victims in the morning (see update from May 11, 11.48 a.m.) . The Ministry of Education recommended that all Russian schools increase security. To this end, “additional measures” should be taken, it said. Citizens in the Republic of Tatarstan were asked to donate additional blood. According to Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova, additional medical personnel have been flown to the region.

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Russia / Kazan: Attack on school – authorities assume lone perpetrators

Update from May 11, 1:39 p.m.: After the attack on a school, the authorities in Kazan assume a lone perpetrator. “There was only one perpetrator,” said a spokeswoman for the authorities on Tuesday, according to the Interfax agency. “Information about two is not correct,” she clarified. Previously there was talk of a possible second suspect.

The head of the Republic of Tartastan, Rustam Minnichanow, called the arrested 19-year-old suspect a “terrorist”. The weapon used is said to have been registered on him. According to reports, the alleged perpetrator was only given the gun license in April. The background to the attack initially remained unclear.

Russia / Kazan: Attack on school – numerous injured in hospital

Update from May 11, 12.35 p.m.: After the fatal attack on a school in Kazan, Russia, 18 school children are being 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 (see update from May 11, 10:35 a.m.) . In addition, three adults were injured. According to the authorities, at least eight people were killed in the attack on the school. In reports from state agencies, eleven fatalities had previously been unanimously reported.

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Russia / Kazan: Attack on school – perpetrators are said to have shot around with a machine gun

Update from May 11, 11:48 a.m.: After the attack on a school in the Russian city of Kazan, Russian President Vladimir Putin * has now also expressed himself. “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.

A suspected shooter was arrested. According to a regional authority, it was a lone perpetrator. There had previously been reports of a possible accomplice. According to Russian media reports, the arrested alleged perpetrator is said to be 19 years old. Accordingly, the arrested suspect is said to have graduated from school about four years ago. Shortly before the act, he is said to have announced the crime in the instant messaging service Telegram.

The alleged perpetrator is said to have entered the school through a main entrance with a machine gun and immediately shot around. After previous attacks on schools, many educational institutions in Russia have security guards at the entrances. It was initially unclear whether this was also the case with the school in Kazan.

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Russia / Kazan: Attack on school – video shows rubble in the school building

Update from May 11, 10:50 a.m.: According to information from the Russian news agency Tass, 32 other people were injured, including many children. According to the President of the Tatarstan Region, Rustam Minnichanow, the majority of the dead students are said to be eighth graders, the Bild reports. According to Minnichanow, twelve students and four adults were hospitalized with injuries.

“We heard an explosion in the school building, we see heavy smoke,” an eyewitness told the Russian news agency RIA Novosti. According to Tass, a teacher said that she first heard an explosion and then gunshots.

A video that appears to show the inside of the school appears to support reports of an explosion. Debris from doors and windows are lying around on the floor in the school hallway. The footage, shared by the Russian daily Izvestia, resembles a battlefield.

Russia / Kazan: School attack – death toll reportedly rises to 11

Update from May 11, 10:35 a.m.: The number of victims of the armed attack on a school in the Russian city of Kazan has continued to rise. Two Russian state agencies now unanimously report eleven people killed – most of them apparently children.

The head of the Republic of Tatarstan, Rustam Minnichanow, speaks of a tragedy, as ARD Moscow reported on Twitter. One of the alleged perpetrators, a 19-year-old, was therefore arrested. According to ARD Moscow, a second was shot by emergency services.

The two attackers are said to have opened fire, as quoted by the ARD Tagesschau from a report by the Tass news agency. According to Tass, the police were able to arrest one of the perpetrators while the second was still in the building for the time being. The students are said to have been rescued from school in the meantime and accommodated in neighboring buildings.

Russia / Kazan: Schoolchildren fleeing the attack show disturbing scenes

Videos in the social networks show how students are apparently desperately trying to escape from the school building. Sometimes you can even see students jumping out of the windows on the upper floors. The filming person can apparently barely grasp what has happened and shouts out loud in shock.

Russia / Kazan: Attack on school – several fatalities after the attack

First report from May 11th: Kazan – Several people were killed in an attack on a school in the Russian city of Kazan. Two Russian state agencies unanimously reported on Tuesday that eight school children and one teacher were killed. At first there was talk of at least one, possibly two, shooters. Accordingly, an explosion should also have been heard.

According to the agency reports, the police arrested a suspect. Another perpetrator is said to have initially stayed in the school. According to the reports, the students were escorted out of the building and, among other things, placed in a neighboring kindergarten.

Russia / Kazan: Attack on school – Several students dead after the attack – all the latest news here

Videos from the crime scene in the social networks show how emergency vehicles from the rescue service and the police rushed to school with flashing lights and sirens. People stood in front of the building and watched the situation. Later on, the school grounds were cordoned off over a large area.

The city of Kazan, where the school attack took place, is located around 720 kilometers east of the Russian capital Moscow and has a population of more than one million. In Russia, the students did not return to class until Tuesday after a week’s vacation. (ph / dpa / afp) * Merkur.de is an offer from IPPEN.MEDIA

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