9 dead in bloody attack at high school in Kazan, Russia - UPDATE: Footage of incident & details of shooter emerge

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Tue, 11 May 2021 07:27 UTC

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Police work at the scene of a shooting at Gymnasium No. 175 in Kazan, Russia's Republic of Tatarstan.

At least nine people have died, with 16 injured, during a shooting at a school in Kazan, the capital of the Republic of Tatarstan, on Tuesday morning. The alleged perpetrator survived the incident and has been detained by police.

"We have lost seven children, eighth-grade students, four boys and three girls," Tatarstan's President Rustam Minnikhanov told the Russia-24 rolling news channel. "They died on the third floor, and 16 more people are now in hospital."

"The terrorist was arrested. He is 19-years-old, no weapons are officially registered to him and no other accomplices have been identified," Minnikhanov continued.

Students and teachers were evacuated from the building as eyewitnesses said they had heard shots and an explosion at School No. 175 in the central Russian city. Some of those inside were seen climbing from windows to escape the gunfire.

Footage emerging online purportedly taken from inside School No. 175 reveals the extent of destruction following a reported blast.

Authorities confirmed later on Tuesday that one attacker had been detained, a 19-year old man with a registered firearm. A second was initially said to have still been engaged in a standoff with police inside the school, but officials have since said that the teenager is thought to have acted alone.

The president of Tatarstan, Rustam Minnikhanov, arrived at the scene later on Tuesday morning, speaking with officers outside the school. He has told reporters that at least four boys and three girls had been killed in the incident, and that police officers have now secured the area.

The incident occurred as Russian workplaces and institutions returned from a 10-day national holiday, marking both Labor Day and the 76th anniversary of Soviet Russia's defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II.

Kazan, located around 800km of Moscow, known as "the third capital of Russia," is a city of over 1.2 million people and the largest in the mostly Muslim region of Tatarstan.

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UPDATE: 12th May 2021 @ 20:57 CET

RT reports:

Russian online media outlet Mash has published footage showing the exact moment when 19-year-old shooter Ilnaz Galyaviev entered Kazan's High School No. 175, shortly before he opened fire on students early on Tuesday morning.

In the video, posted online after the assailant was captured, Galyaviev can be seen walking up to the school and pointing a weapon at someone just outside the building.

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Police and paramedics work at the scene of a shooting at Gymnasium No. 175 in Kazan, Russia's Republic of Tatarstan, 11.05.2021.

Another clip, also published by Mash, shows the killer walking down a Kazan street, carrying a firearm in his hand. Filmed at 9:24am local time, Galyaviev is seen wearing a mask and waving his gun at a passer-by.

According to local authorities, Galyaviev went on to kill one teacher and seven students, sending many more to hospital. Reports from news agency RIA Novosti suggest that two of the pupils had died after jumping out of the window to escape gunfire.

Prior to the terrorist attack, Galyaviev had announced his intention to kill on social media, calling himself a "god."

Kazan is located around 700 kilometers east of Moscow and is the capital of Tatarstan, a Muslim-majority republic. With over 1.2 million residents, Kazan is often referred to as the 'third capital of Russia.'

Following the shooting, Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered National Guard head Viktor Zolotov to begin an emergency review of gun laws and impose new restrictions on the types of weapons that can be owned by civilians.
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'I am like a God': Kazan school shooter's chilling message revealed as Putin orders gun control probe after nine killed in attack 11

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Media in the country named the suspect as 19-year-old Ilnaz Galyaviev, identified as a former student at School No. 175, where the attack took place on Tuesday morning. He had subsequently gone on to study at the nearby TISBI management university, but a spokesperson for the college told Moscow's RBC that he had been expelled after falling behind on his studies.

The source told reporters that Galyaviev had "shown himself to be a quiet and non-abrasive student during his studies. He was always neat and calm, and respectful of fellow students and teachers." The teenager had apparently stopped attending classes in January and lost touch with tutors. "He did not appear to defend his industrial experience project or to sit three state exams, as a result of which he was expelled," the press office added.

Last week, Galyaviev is reported to have set up a channel on the Telegram service, with messages purporting to be from "God." In a series of comments written last Thursday, the account announced that "I am like a God."

The account went on to say that the population of the world were his "slaves," and should kill each other before ultimately killing themselves. He added that there should be no living creatures left in the world, and that life was a "mistake of the universe."

Prior to the shooting, he is reported to have written that he would kill a large number of people before ending his own life. A photograph posted to the channel showed a man resembling the one detained by police posing for a selfie while wearing what appears to be a combat vest and a face covering, emblazoned with the word "Bog," or "God" in Russian.

The Baza news site quotes Galyaviev's father as saying that his son was "not religious, and he never expressed or showed any bad thoughts or ideas."

Rustam Minnikhanov, the president of the majority Muslim Russian region of Tatarstan, where Kazan is located, said that Galyaviev was a registered firearm owner.

Speaking to journalists later on Tuesday, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Russian President Vladimir Putin had given an order to begin an emergency review of gun control legislation. "The fact is that sometimes types of small arms are registered as hunting weapons, which in some countries are defined as assault rifles and so on," he said. "This, too, will be urgently worked out by the Russian Guard."

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