Russia School Shooter Wearing ‘Nazi Symbols’ Leaves 13 Dead, Including Seven Children, in Izhevsk

A gunman wearing “Nazi symbols and tank tops” shot dead 13 people, including seven children, in an attack on a school in central Russia on Thursday, officials said. Two.

The attack at School 88 in Izhevsk, about 600 miles east of Moscow, also wounded 14 children and seven adults. The shooter committed suicide after the massacre.

While the identity of the gunman and the motive for the attack remain unknown, Russia’s Investigative Committee released a short video showing the gunman’s body lying on the classroom floor surrounded by furniture. capsized. A red swastika in a circle appears to have been drawn on the chest area of ​​his black jacket.

The Investigative Committee, which is responsible for major crimes, added that the six adults shot dead included a teacher at the school and a security guard. The shooter is believed to have not carried any identification during the slaughter, with a criminal investigation into the attack currently underway.

Speaking outside the school on Monday as paramedics rushed onto the campus, regional governor Alexander Brechalov confirmed “child casualties and injuries.”

There have been at least 13 mass shootings in Russia in the past three years, including a school shooting in May 2021 killed nine people. The massacre in Kazan, western Russia, which injured 23 others, was carried out by a former student.

One private shoot shook Russia on Monday, when a gunman shot a commander trying to move residents in the Irkutsk region of Siberia.

More than a dozen attacks on enlistment offices around the country have been recorded since last Wednesday, when Vladimir Putin announced the mobilization of 300,000 new troops for his invasion of Ukraine, bring the country into chaos.

During the war in Ukraine, which began in February, Putin and other Russian officials justified the bloody war on the grounds that “Denazification.”