In a school in central Russia on Monday, a shooter murdered six people and injured 20 others, according to the local police. In a video message, Alexander Brechalov, the governor of the Udmurtia region, stated in a video message that the as-yet unidentified shooter entered a school in the territory’s capital, Izhevsk, and killed a guard and several of the students there. Children were victims, and there were also wounded, according to Brechalov. Children in the first through eleventh grades were taught there. The governor and neighborhood police claim that the shooter killed himself.
According to the official, the school has been closed and the surrounding area has been fenced off. No information has been made public on the shooter or his intentions. Izhevsk, a 640,000-person city in central Russia, is 960 kilometres (596 miles) east of Moscow and situated west of the Ural mountains.
