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A 34-year-old man opened fire on Monday at school 88 in Izhvesk, in the Udmurtia region, 960 kilometers from Moscow, killing 17 people, including 11 children, and wounding 24 others, before shooting himself. himself and die after the attack.
The 34-year-old individual, identified as Artyom Kazantsev, was a graduate of that school, and was registered as a psychiatric patient in a local institution, according to the governor of Udmurtia, Alexander Brechalov.
Kazantsev’s motives are unknown, but according to the Russian Investigative Committee, he was wearing a T-shirt with “Nazi symbols” at the time of the attack.
The Kremlin spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, described the shooting, which left 22 children injured, as “a terrorist act”, at the time of transferring the condolences of President Vladimir Putin to the population of Izhvesk, who ordered psychologists and neurosurgeons to be sent to the town. to assist survivors.
The targeted school serves children from first through eleventh grade in the city of 640,000 people located west of the Ural Mountains in central Russia.
The children were evicted and the surroundings of the school cordoned off after the attack, which the assailant carried out using two non-lethal weapons that were modified to be loaded with live ammunition.
They will investigate the environment of the perpetrator
The Investigative Committee announced that investigations will be carried out in Kazantsev’s environment, to try to establish the motivations of the man, who was wearing a black T-shirt with a swastika in a circle.
A statement revealed that it would be investigated whether Kazantsev was affiliated with any organization that promotes neo-Nazi ideology.
The man fired on a school security officer before storming into classrooms and continuing the killing spree.
A painful history of attacks
Although not as frequent as in the United States, attacks on schools are not new in Russia.
The most serious of these was a terrorist attack perpetrated at a school in Beslan, North Ossetia, in which 30 armed individuals from an Islamist group kidnapped 1,181 people. The rescue operation by Russian security forces led to a shooting that left 334 victims, including 186 children.
More recently, an 18-year-old student opened fire in 2018 on his classmates, killing 20 of them, at a university in annexed Crimea.
In May 2021, another teenage shooter killed seven children and two adults in Kazan, and in September of the same year a student armed with a hunting rifle killed six people at a Perm university.
Last April, a shooter broke into an Ulyanovsk preschool, killing two children and a teacher, before committing suicide.
With AP and Reuters
