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MOSCOW (Reuters) -A gunman with a swastika on his teeshirt killed 15 people, including 11 children, and wounded 24 at a school in Russia on Monday before committing suicide, investigators said.
The attacker, a man in his early thirties who was named by authorities as Artem Kazantsev, killed two security guards and then opened fire on students and teachers at School Number 88 in Izhevsk, where he had once been a pupil.
Russia's Investigative Committee, which handles major crimes, said it was looking into the perpetrator's suspected neo-Nazi links.
"Currently investigators...are conducting a search of his residence and studying the personality of the attacker, his views and surrounding milieu," the committee said in a statement. "Checks are being made into his adherence to neo-fascist views and Nazi ideology."
https://www.yahoo.com/news/gunman-opens-fire-school-russias-075355434.html
PortTack
(32,770 posts)regnaD kciN
(26,044 posts)and, for those saying that Putin would never kill Russian children for political gain, I recommend you look back at the bombings of Moscow apartment blocks, ludicrously blamed on Chechnyan terrorists, that provided the justification for the genocide in Chechnya early in Putlers rule.
drray23
(7,633 posts)they would have said the perpetrator was ukrainian or at least a foreigner. As it stands it's a guy who was born and raised in this area and went to that school. Not unlike our school shooters.