At least 13 people were killed, including nine children, when a gunman wearing a T-shirt with a red swastika opened fire on Monday in a school in the central Russian city of Izhevsk, Russia’s Investigative Committee reported.
The gunman, reportedly armed with two weapons, also killed himself.The attack occurred at School No. 88 in Izhevsk, the capital of the Udmurt Republic, a region in central Russia west of the Ural mountains. The head of the Udmurt Republic, Alexander Brechalov, said that 23 people were injured — including 20 children.
The gunman, clad in black pants, black jacket, the swastika T-shirt, and a black balaclava, shot the school security guard before walking into the school and opening fire on children, many of them as young as 7 years old, according local media accounts. A seventh-grade boy at the school jumped from a third-floor window to escape the shooting and broke his leg, Russian newspaper Moskovsky Komomolets reported.
Russia, however, has long had far-right, neo-Nazi elements within its own population. It was not clear if the gunman who attacked the school in Izhevsk was a member of any such group in Russia.
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