Nine people, including seven children, were killed on Tuesday and many more badly wounded after a lone teenage gunman opened fire in a school in the Russian city of Kazan, local authorities said, prompting a Kremlin call for tighter gun controls. The shooting was on the third floor," said one teacher, quoted by Tatar Inform, a local media outlet. Footage posted on social media showed a young man being pinned to the ground outside the school by police officers. The incident was Russia's deadliest school shooting since 2018 when a student at a college in Russian-annexed Crimea killed 20 people before turning his gun on himself. Footage showed a corridor inside the school strewn with debris, including smashed glass and broken doors.

Source: The Star May 11, 2021 14:37 UTC