A gunman on Monday morning killed 9 people and wounded more than 20 in a school in Izhevsk, capital of the Udmurtia region of Russia, reports The Straight Times.
Among the dead, there were 5 children, said local police.
Governor of the Udmurtia region, Alexander Brechalov, said in a video statement that shooter got into a school in Izhevsk, the region's capital, killed a guard and some of the children there. The school educated children between grades 1 and 11.
According to the governor and local police, the gunman shot himself. The school has been evacuated and area around it has been fenced off, the official said.
No details about the gunman or his motives were known.
Izhevsk, a city of 640,000, is located west of the Ural Mountains in central Russia, about 960 kilometres (596 miles) east of Moscow.
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