Another school shooting in Russia: At least 17 people dead, 24 more wounded after a 34-year-old gunman, a former student, opened fire at a school in Russia’s Izhevsk
The most deadly school shooting was the Beslan School siege in Russia on September 1, 2004, which left 385 dead and another 783 wounded. At the end of this article below are a few recent attacks on schools over the last few years in Russia. Note that the US has 127% more people than Russia, so you would have to multiply these school shootings by 2.27 to get a per capita rate similar to that in the US.
The mass murders occurred despite Russia’s extremely strict gun control laws. Only about 1% of adults are legally licensed to own guns in Russia. The murderer reportedly obtained “two non-lethal handguns adapted to fire real bullets.”
Russia’s Investigative Committee identified the gunman as 34-year-old Artyom Kazantsev, a graduate of the same school, and said he was wearing a black T-shirt bearing “Nazi symbols”. No details about his motives have been released.
The government of Udmurtia said 17 people, including 11 children, were killed in the shooting. According to Russia’s Investigative Committee, 24 other people, including 22 children, were wounded in the attack.
The governor of Udmurtia, Alexander Brechalov, said the gunman, who he said was registered as a patient at a psychiatric facility, killed himself after the attack. . . .
The last such tragedy took place in April 2022, when a man killed two children and a teacher at a kindergarten in the central Ulyanovsk region before killing himself.
In May 2021, nine people – including seven children – were killed after a lone teenage gunman opened fire in Russia’s southwestern city of Kazan.
In 2018, a student at a college in Russian-annexed Crimea killed 20 people before turning his gun on himself. . . .
