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At least eleven people have died after a school shooting incident in Kazan, Russia’s fifth city.
Preliminary reports suggested two gunmen attacked Secondary School number 175, on Dzhaudata Faizi street early on Tuesday morning. That initial information was later contradicted by a spokesman for local police, who said there was a lone attacker.
Local media named the gunman as 19-year old Ilnaz Galyaliyev, a former pupil at the school.
Mr Galyaliyev is believed to have who entered the school by its main entrance, before firing rounds from an automatic firearm. An explosion was also heard.
Distressing footage distributed on social media shows schoolchildren jumping from the top floors to the ground below — and then, bloodied, receiving emergency first aid below. The injuries were fatal in at least two cases.
Other children were evacuated via ladders provided by fire engines.
The Kremlin said Vladimir Putin had been informed of the incident, and had ordered a review into public gun ownership. Assault firearms were being incorrectly registered as hunting rifles, spokesman Dmitry Peskov suggested.
Earlier, Rustam Minnikhanov, head of the local Tatarstan republic, said the firearms used in the attack had been legally registered.
School shootings are relatively rare in Russia, but authorities have been on guard since a 2018 incident at a polytechnic college in Kerch, Crimea.
That shooting left 20 people dead, the greatest number lost to school violence since the 2004 Beslan terror attack, where 333 died.
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