School Shooting: Gunman Kills 9 People In Russia

A gunman killed nine people, including five children at a school in Russia before committing suicide, according to a Russian official who revealed this on Monday.

Authorities believe that a motive for the shooting in Izhevsk, the capital of the Udmurtia region, is unclear.

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Russian police have confirmed that the body of a gunman who attacked and killed many in the Republic of Udmurtia was found after he opened fire at a school.

Investigators said the attacker had killed nine people before committing suicide. The victims included five children, two teachers and two security guards, it said.

In recent years, Russia has seen many school shootings.

In May 2021, a teenage gunman shot and killed seven children and two adults in the city of Kazan.

The attack was one of many that occurred in the aftermath of President Putin’s proposal to lower the minimum age for voting from 18 to 16.

The attacker was shot by police immediately after the attack but died without receiving medical treatment at the scene.

Again, an armed man killed two children and a teacher at a kindergarten in the central Ulyanovsk region before committing suicide in April 2022.

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Meanwhile, two days ago, President Vladimir Putin issued Russia’s first mobilisation since World War II and backed a plan to annex swathes of Ukraine, warning the West he was not bluffing when he said he’d be ready to use nuclear weapons to defend Russia.

In the biggest escalation of the Ukraine war since Moscow’s Feb. 24 invasion, Putin explicitly raised the spectre of a nuclear conflict, approved a plan to annex a chunk of Ukraine the size of Hungary, and called up 300,000 reservists.

If the territorial integrity of our country is threatened, we will without doubt use all available means to protect Russia and our people – this is not a bluff,” Putin said in a televised address to the nation.