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.