At least eight dead in Russian school shooting
With others gravely injured in hospital, Vladimir Putin has already called for tighter gun controls after a 19-year-old opened fire in Kazan
11 May 2021 - 16:25
Moscow — At least seven schoolchildren and one teacher were killed on Tuesday and many more wounded after a lone teenage gunman opened fire in a school in the Russian city of Kazan, the mayor’s office said, prompting a Kremlin call for tighter gun controls.
Two children could be seen leaping from the third floor of the four-storey School Number 175 to escape as gunshots rang out, in a video filmed by an onlooker that was circulated by Russia’s RIA news agency...
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