At the very least 15 individuals had been killed after a gunman carrying a T-shirt emblazoned with a swastika opened fireplace at a college within the western Russian metropolis of Izhevsk.
Eleven youngsters had been among the many lifeless, police mentioned.
Two academics and two safety guards had been additionally killed.
One other 24 individuals had been injured, together with 22 youngsters, Russia’s Investigative Committee, which handles main crimes, mentioned, however there are fears the dying toll might develop.
The gunman later killed himself, mentioned the committee, which additionally revealed the small print about what he had been carrying.
The committee is wanting into the attacker’s suspected neo-Nazi hyperlinks and named him as Artem Kazantsev, a person in his early thirties.
He was a graduate of Faculty Quantity 88, which educates youngsters between the ages of six and 17.
“At the moment investigators... are conducting a search of his residence and finding out the persona of the attacker, his views and surrounding milieu,” the committee mentioned in an announcement.
“Checks are being made into his adherence to neo-fascist views and Nazi ideology.”
Investigators additionally launched a brief video exhibiting the person’s physique mendacity on the ground of a classroom with overturned furnishings and papers strewn on the bloodstained flooring.
He was wearing black, with a crimson swastika in a circle drawn on his T-shirt. No particulars of his motives have been launched.
The Tass information company quoted investigators as saying he was armed with two pistols and a provide of ammunition.
Russia’s Nationwide Guard mentioned Kazantsev used two non-lethal handguns tailored to fireside correct bullets.
The weapons weren't registered with the authorities.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov mentioned President Vladimir Putin “deeply mourns” the deaths. He described the incident as “a terrorist act by an individual who apparently belongs to a neo-fascist organisation or group”.
The realm across the college has been fenced off.
Izhevsk, a metropolis of 640,000 individuals, is situated west of the Ural mountains, in central Russia, about 960 kilometres (596 miles) east of Moscow.
The nation has seen a number of college shootings in recent times.
In Could final yr, a teenage gunman killed seven youngsters and two adults within the metropolis of Kazan.
In April this yr, an armed man killed two youngsters and a trainer at a kindergarten within the central Ulyanovsk area earlier than committing suicide.
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