One more FSB officer was critically wounded, while three people, including a civilian, had less serious injuries. Manyurov was then shot dead by an FSB sniper, officials said. Russian media have portrayed the gunman, who lived with his mother, as a loner obsessed with firearms. “We advised him to take off his coat during shooting sessions, but he said he felt comfortable in it,” Solovich told Russia’s Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper. The attack may have been planned to coincide with the speech, an FSB source told Reuters.

Source: The Guardian December 20, 2019 10:07 UTC