一名男子在中部一所学校开枪,造成至少17人死亡,其中包括11名儿童俄罗斯周一,官员们说。
地方当局表示,在距离莫斯科约600英里的伊热夫斯克市的学校袭击中,至少有24人受伤,一些人伤势严重,这是俄罗斯遭受的最致命的校园枪击事件之一。在枪击事件中受伤的24人中有22名儿童。
据该地区的官员称,死者中有两名教师和两名保安。
警方称,袭击发生后,枪手在学校自杀。他们确认他是该校一名34岁的前学生。俄罗斯处理严重犯罪的调查委员会认定他是阿尔捷姆·卡赞采夫,并发布了一段视频,据称视频显示他的尸体躺在教室的血泊中。
袭击的动机尚不清楚,但该委员会表示,正在调查枪手可能持有的“新法西斯主义观点”,在发布的视频中,枪手似乎穿着一件带有红色纳粹标志的t恤。
弗拉基米尔·普京总统的发言人称这次枪击事件为“恐怖主义行为”
“普京总统对发生恐怖主义行为的学校中的人员和儿童的死亡感到悲痛。普京的新闻秘书德米特里·佩斯科夫告诉记者:“从一切情况来看,这是由一个属于新法西斯组织或团体的个人实施的。”。
枪击发生在上午,当时孩子们正在上课。俄罗斯媒体流传的视频显示,学生蜷缩在课桌下,地板上有明显的血迹。警察封锁了学校,可以看到急救服务人员从大楼里抬着担架抬着伤员。
据俄罗斯议会信息政策、技术和通信委员会主席亚历山大·欣斯坦(Alexander Khinstein)称,枪手持有两支手枪。
A woman hugs a boy surrounded by other people near the scene of a shooting at a school in Izhevsk, Russia, Sept. 26, 2022.
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校园枪击事件在俄罗斯相对罕见,但近年来越来越频繁。
2021年5月,一名少年在袭击了喀山的一所学校后杀害了7名儿童和两名成人,今年4月,一名男子在乌里扬诺夫斯克地区的一所幼儿园开枪打死了两名儿童和一名教师。2018年,一名18岁的学生在被占领的克里米亚刻赤的一所理工学院引爆炸弹,造成21人死亡,数十人受伤。
At least 17 killed in Russian school shooting
At least 17 people, including 11 children, were killed after a man opened fire at a school in centralRussiaon Monday, officials said.
Local authorities said at least 24 more people were injured, some severely, in the attack in the school in the city of Izhevsk about 600 miles from Moscow, making it one of the deadliest school shootings Russia has suffered. Twenty-two children were among the two dozen injured in the shooting.
Two teachers and two security guards were among the dead, according to the region's governor.
Police said the alleged shooter killed himself at the school following the attack. They identified him as a 34-year-old former student at the school. Russia's Investigative Committee, which handles serious crimes, identified him as Artyem Kazantsev, and posted a video it said showed his body lying in a pool of blood in a classroom.
The motive for the attack was still unclear but the committee said it was investigating possible "neofascist views" held by the shooter, who in the video it released appeared to be wearing a T-shirt with a red swastika.
President Vladimir Putin's spokesman called the shooting a "terrorist act."
"President Putin grieves in connection with the deaths of people and children in the school, where the terrorist act occurred. It was carried out by an individual who, judging by everything, belongs to a neofascist organisation or group," Dmitry Peskov, Putin's press secretary told reporters.
The shooting began mid-morning, while children were in class. Video circulating in Russian media showed pupils cowering under desks and with blood stains visible on the floor. Police sealed off the school and emergency services could be seen carrying stretchers with the wounded from the building.
The shooter was armed with two pistols, according to Alexander Khinstein, the chairman of Russia's parliamentary committee for information policy, technology and communications.
School shootings have been relatively rare in Russia, but in recent years they have become increasingly frequent.
In May 2021, a teenager killed seven children and two adults after attacking a school in Kazan, and in April this year a man shot two children and a teacher dead at a kindergarten in the Ulyanovsk region. An 18-year-old student killed 21 people and wounded dozens more after setting off a bomb in a polytechnic college in Kerch in occupied Crimea in 2018.