Several killed in school shooting in Russia's east
Ambulances and police cars and a truck are parked at a school after a shooting in Kazan. - AP Photo/Roman Kruchinin
KAZAN: A school shooting erupted Tuesday morning in the Russian city of Kazan, killing seven students and leaving 16 other people hospitalised with wounds, a Russian governor reported.
The governor of the Tatarstan republic, which has Kazan as its capital, said on Tuesday that four male and three female eighth-grade students died in the shooting.
Twelve more children and four adults were hospitalized in the attack, Rustam Minnikhanov said.
Russia’s state RIA Novosti news agency reported earlier that a total of 11 people had been killed in the Kazan school shooting, citing local emergency officials.
There was no way to immediately reconcile the differing death tolls.
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