Russia is to tighten its gun laws after a teenager killed seven children and two adults at his former school in the city of Kazan. “Sometimes there are weapons registered as hunting rifles, which in some [other] countries are used as assault rifles,” he added. School shootings are not common in Russia, but Tuesday’s bloodshed stirred memories of a 2018 attack at a college in Kremlin-controlled Crimea, when a student killed 20 people and then turned his gun on himself. The shooting was on the third floor,” one teacher at the school told local media in Kazan. Russian media also asked former pupils at the school for their memories of Galyaviyev.

Source: The Irish Times May 11, 2021 07:56 UTC