A 14-year-old girl shot her classmates at a school in Bryansk, a city in southwestern Russia, on Thursday, killing one of them and then killing herself, authorities said in a statement.
“A 14-year-old girl arrived at school with a gun and shot at her classmates,” killing one of them, the note from Russia’s Investigative Committee said.
According to Bryansk police, the person responsible for the shooting ultimately committed suicide.
Local authorities reported that five other people were injured.
“The reasons and circumstances” of the tragedy are under investigation, police said.
“Today a terrible tragedy occurred at school number 5 in Bryansk. One of the students brought a gun into the school,” wrote the regional governor on Telegram, Alexandre Bogomaz.
According to the governor, all five injured are children and have been hospitalized.
Deadly shootings, especially at schools, have become increasingly common in Russia in recent years.
The Russian head of state classified these situations as a phenomenon imported from the United States and a perverse effect of globalization. Putin eventually tightened gun laws.
In September 2022, a shooting in Izhevsk, central Russia, killed 18 people, and in 2021 a 21-year-old attacker killed nine people at a school in Kazan, Tatarstan.
Source: DN
