Ambulances and police cars at a school after a shooting in Kazan, Russia (Roman Kruchinin/AP)A gunman has attacked a school in the Russian city of Kazan, killing eight people – seven students and a teacher – and leaving 21 other people in hospital, officials said. Russian media said some students were able to escape the building during the attack, while others were trapped inside. Rustam Minnikhanov, governor of the Tatarstan republic where Kazan is the capital, said four boys and three girls, all eighth-grade students, died in the shooting. Expand Close An ambulance and police trucks at a school after the shooting in Kazan (Roman Kruchinin/AP) / FacebookTwitterEmailWhatsapp An ambulance and police trucks at a school after the shooting in Kazan (Roman Kruchinin/AP)Russia’s state RIA Novosti news agency reported earlier that 11 people had been killed in the Kazan school shooting. While school shootings are relatively rare in Russia, there have been several violent attacks on schools in recent years, mostly carried out by students.

Source: Irish Independent May 11, 2021 09:33 UTC