A gunman with a swastika on his T-shirt killed 15 people, including 11 children, and wounded 24 at a school in Russia yesterday before killing himself, investigators said.
A gunman with a swastika on his T-shirt killed 15 people, including 11 children, and wounded 24 at a school in Russia yesterday before killing himself, investigators said.
The attacker, a man in his early 30s 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, about 970km east of Moscow, where he was once 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.
