RTFri, 21 Apr 2017 19:47 UTC
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The shooting took place on Friday inside a reception room of the FSB office in Khabarovsk, the agency's press service said.
The assailant opened fire outside the security checkpoint, killing an FSB officer and one of the visitors, said to be a national of a former Soviet country, it added. The gunman was killed as the security guards returned fire.
The attacker was later identified as an 18-year-old resident of Khabarovsk Region, who had alleged links to a neo-Nazi group, the agency said. He earlier killed an instructor at a local shooting club and stole a hunting rifle and two pistols to carry out the attack, the FSB said in a statement.
No explosive device was found on the slain gunman's body, the FSB said in a statement later on Friday.
Evidence is being gathered at the crime scene, FSB said.
Another visitor, also said to be in the reception area, was injured in the shooting.
Comment: A gunman
opened fire in the receiving office of the local branch of Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) in the Far Eastern city of Khabarovsk on Friday, the FSB Public Relations Center told TASS.
"At 17:02 local time (06:02 GMT), an unidentified man entered the FSB receiving office and opened fire before crossing the control zone," the Center said.
The shooter has been identified as A.V.Konev, born in 1999, a resident of the Khabarovsk region, according to the Center.
Update (April 22): Russia's Investigative Committee
has refuted any possible links between the attacker on the parlor of the territorial branch of the FSB federal security service and a rifle club in the Far-Eastern city of Khabarovsk and the activities of terrorist organizations.
The Investigative Committee's official spokesperson, Svetlana Petrenko said: "The investigators don't have any evidence that would confirm the attacker's links to an international terrorist organization, which ostensibly claimed responsibility for the crime."
She also said the data available to the investigators indicated that the young man, who carried out the attack at the FSB parlor in Khabarovsk was an adept of neo-Nazi theories.
"The data we have received so far lead up to a conclusion the crime was committed by an advocate of neo-Nazi outlooks who espoused hatred towards people of other ethnic identities," Petrenko said.
Comment: A gunman opened fire in the receiving office of the local branch of Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) in the Far Eastern city of Khabarovsk on Friday, the FSB Public Relations Center told TASS. Update (April 22): Russia's Investigative Committee has refuted any possible links between the attacker on the parlor of the territorial branch of the FSB federal security service and a rifle club in the Far-Eastern city of Khabarovsk and the activities of terrorist organizations.