A gunman has killed at least nine people and wounded 20 others in a school in central Russia, local police said.
Russia’s Investigative Committee said in an online statement that two guards, two teachers and five students had been killed at the school in Izhevsk, a city about 960 kilometres east of Moscow in the Udmurtia region.
Alexander Brechalov, the governor of the Udmurtia region, said in a video statement that the still unidentified gunman shot himself.
“There are victims among the children, there are wounded too,” Brechalov said.
The school educates children between grades 1 and 11.
The school has been evacuated and area around it has been fenced off, the official said.
No details about the gunman or his motives have been released.
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Izhevsk, a city of 640,000, is located west of the Ural mountains in central Russia.
