MOSCOW — Russian authorities in Crimea were searching Thursday for a possible accomplice of the student whose shooting-and-bomb attack on his vocational school killed 20 people and wounded more than 50 others, a top official said. But Sergei Aksyonov, the Kremlin-appointed head of Crimea, told Russian news agencies on Thursday that it’s possible the attacker, identified as Vyacheslav Roslyakov, had an accomplice. The Kerch attack was also the deadliest school violence in Russia since the 2004 Beslan attack by Chechen separatists, which left 333 people dead, many of them children, during a three-day siege. Speaking at an international policy conference, Putin compared the Kerch shooting to deadly school attacks in the United States. Since then, Russian authorities have repeatedly warned of a terrorism threat coming from unnamed Ukrainian nationalists as well as ethnic Tatars, an indigenous Crimean people.

Source: National Post October 18, 2018 07:22 UTC